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Prevalence of hereditary haemochromatosis in late-onset type 1 diabetes mellitus: a retrospective study.
Lancet (London, England) - 27 Oct 2001
Ellervik C, Mandrup-Poulsen T, Nordestgaard B G, Larsen L E, Appleyard M, Frandsen M, Petersen P, Schlichting P, Saermark T, Tybjaerg-Hansen A, Birgens H
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BACKGROUND: Although genotyping studies suggest that hereditary haemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic disorders in white people, it is still thought of as an uncommon disease. Our aim was to test the hypothesis that hereditary haemochromatosis is a disease often overlooked in patient...
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