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About Sarcoidosis Awareness Month

United States
EVENT NAME:
Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
EVENT CATEGORIES:
Health , United States
Dates Active:
Begins: Apr 01, 2025
Ends: Apr 30, 2025
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In 2008, Congress declared April National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month to bring more attention to this rare, multi-system disease. Additionally, each year a single day in April is set aside via Presidential decree to focus on this disease.

About Sarcoidosis from the Bernie Mac Foundation:

Sarcoidosis causes inflammation, called a granuloma, in different body areas. Because it can appear anywhere from the lungs to the eyes to the heart, it can manifest in various symptoms, including swollen lymph nodes, skin sores, and lumps in the lungs—or no symptoms at all.

Inflammation can affect any organ in the body, but the lungs and skin are the most common. If the inflammation is allowed to continue, the result will be tissue scarring. The goal of treatment is to interrupt the inflammation so that a damaging scar does not form. Scar formation is more critical in specific organs, such as the lungs, eyes, heart, and brain. Diseases involving these organs are often treated with anti-inflammatory medications.

Sarcoidosis is not cancer, nor is it a contagious disease. In some cases, it seems to run in families. Medical textbooks twenty years ago listed the illness as being primarily one of African American women and patients of Scandinavian descent. We now know that, although Sarcoid seems more prevalent in these populations, and there may be a genetic predisposition, the disease is not limited to these groups. More and more Caucasian men and women (of eastern European and Scandinavian descent), Puerto Rican patients, and African American men are diagnosed with it.

With treatment, many people recover, although it can take several years. Others may have a more challenging time and can suffer more significant organ damage. Even when symptoms subside—called remission—sarcoidosis can return. In rare cases, sarcoidosis is fatal, and researchers don’t know what causes it.

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