Juvenile Hemochromatosis (JH) is a rare genetic disorder that causes iron overload. JH clinical features are similar to those of hemochromatosis (HFE), but the clinical course is more severe and is ...

The aim of this study was to compare the frequencies of HFE mutations in African-American women with non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) to that of controls and to determine whether these ...

Despite this, universal genetic screening has not been recommended for several reasons. First, presence of the mutation does not mean that the individual will develop HH. Although testing may assist ...

Expert Rev Mol Diagn. 2010;10(6):755-763. The diagnosis is based on a three-step strategy. The first step is recognizing clinical signs and symptoms. Many symptoms in various combinations may suggest ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 99, No. 24 (Nov. 26, 2002), pp. 15602-15607 (6 pages) Hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) is a disorder of iron ...

Recently discovered genetic mutations, modern diagnostic techniques, and fresh approaches to therapy change the outlook on hemochromatosis. Ben, age 46, visited his primary-care clinician with ...

Genomic screening to identify hemochromatosis - a disorder that causes iron levels in the body to rise to dangerous levels - encourages people with the condition to seek treatment and ongoing ...

Much less widely known than the dangerous consequences of iron deficiencies is the fact that too much iron can also cause problems. The exact origin of the genetic iron overload disorder hereditary ...

A British study has found that “stealth disease”, also known as hemochromatosis, could be the reason behind several disease conditions including cancers and joint diseases. These diseases were earlier ...

NEW YORK, June 26 (Praxis Press) Type 2 diabetes mellitus is a common complication of iron-overload diseases such as hereditary hemochromatosis. Recently a gene mutation was identified that strongly ...

A disease that was once thought to be the most common genetic disorder of Europeans has now been shown by scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) to be relatively rare. In what was one of ...