[Sarcoidosis and profession (author's transl)]

This paper is basing on hitherto not published results of a dynamic community-related epidemiologic study, passed by data processing on sarcoidosis within the territory of the district of Cottbus (860000 inhabitants). The completely registered new cases of sarciodosis during the years 1961-1975 (1647 cases) have been recorded using the following epidemiologic parameters: profession, age, sex, education, residential district, personal status and so on. The classification according to professional groups was carried out correspondingly to an appropriate modification of the professional catalogue of the WHO. Under consideration of the hitherto very contradictory data in literature--the result of our investigation points to the importance of this epidemiologic parameter. Conclusions could be drawn also as to morbidity, pathogenesis and prophylaxis results. The correlation between profession, education and residential district allows interpretations on the causes of regional differences in the incidence of sardoidosis in rural districts. In the district of Cottbus there is an accumulation of sarcoidosis in rural districts respectively in professional branches prevailing there.