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Iron and liver diseases.
Canadian journal of gastroenterology = Journal canadien de gastroenterologie - 1 Nov 2000
Fargion S, Mattioli M, Fracanzani A L, Fiorelli G
Abstract excerpt
A mild to moderate iron excess is found in patients with liver diseases apparently unrelated to genetic hemochromatosis. Iron appears to affect the natural history of hepatitis C virus-related chronic liver diseases, alcoholic liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis by leading to a more severe fibrosis and thus aiding the evolution to cirrhosis. A higher frequency of mutations of the HFE gene, the gene...
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