Hemochromatosis and dietary iron supplementation: implications from US mortality, morbidity, and health survey data.

Article

Hemochromatosis and dietary iron supplementation: implications from US mortality, morbidity, and health survey data.

Journal of the American Dietetic Association - 1 Feb 1992

Gable C B

Abstract excerpt

Trends in the mortality rates, morbidity rates, and hematologic screening parameters for hemochromatosis in the United States over the past 20 years were examined to assess whether dietary iron supplementation is a precipitating factor for hemochromatosis. From 1968 through 1987, there was an inc...

Topics

Adolescent
Adult
Aged
Databases, Factual
Female
Genotype
Hemochromatosis
Humans
Iron
Male
Middle Aged
Morbidity
Phenotype
Prevalence
Transferrin
United States

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