ArticleAmerican journal of medicine open2023
Screening for Hereditary Hemochromatosis in Newly Referred Diabetes Mellitus.
Article in American journal of medicine open, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.
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Abstract
Aims: Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is the most common inherited disease in European populations. It is particularly common in people of Irish heritage, approximately 2% of whom will be at risk of iron overload as a result of human homoeostatic iron regulator protein ( Methods: Of 575 patients newly referred between March 2018 and March 2021, 556 attended for blood testing, to include fasting transferrin saturations, prior to their first clinic visit. Patients with elevated transferrin saturations were further screened for hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) with Results: Transferrin saturations were elevated in 13 of 556 patients (2.3%), 3 of whom had a preexisting diagnosis of HH. Of the remaining 10 patients, 7 had Conclusions: The prevalence of HH of 1.8% in this screened DM population is lower than the reported incidence of HH in the Irish population, suggesting a limited utility of routine screening for HH in newly referred patients with DM.
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