Chronic inflammation does not appear to modify the homozygous hereditary hemochromatosis phenotype.

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The mechanism of excessive iron storage in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis caused by mutations of the HFE gene seems to be a failure to up-regulate hepcidin in the face of increased body iron. Since the cytokines IL-1 and IL-6 stimulate hepcidin transcription in the absence of HFE, chronic inflammatory states might counteract the effect of HFE mutations. We measured the pre-phlebotomy plasma levels of C...

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