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

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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 increase in the overall hemochromatosis mortality rates attributable to white women. From 1979 through 1987, the...

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