This study confirms that lowering gastric acidity by proton pump inhibitors results in a reduction iron absorption patients with hemochromatosis and not healthy control subjects. The presupposition decrease hepcidin concentration subjects response to can explain the difference between these groups could be confirmed probably because of small sample size.

A variety of wildlife species maintained in captivity are susceptible to iron storage disease (ISD), or hemochromatosis, a disease resulting from the deposition of excess iron into insoluble iron clusters in soft tissue. Sumatran rhinoceros (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis) is one of the rhinoceros species that has evolutionarily adapted to a low-iron diet and is susceptible to iron overload. Hemoside...

Objective: We sought to identify predictors of diabetes diagnosed before hemochromatosis. Research Design and Methods: We studied these 16 variables in 159 non-screening hemochromatosis probands with HFE C282Y homozygosity: age; sex; body mass index (BMI); diabetes reports in first-degree family members (dichotomous); heavy ethanol consumption; cigarette smoking; elevated serum ALT/AST levels; ...

Hemochromatosis is one of the most common genetic diseases affecting Canadians of European ancestry. However, too often this disease is diagnosed in people who do not have it and is missed in those who do. By the time a diagnosis is made on the basis of symptoms, irreversible organ damage has often occurred. A missense mutation (the C282Y cysteine-to-tyrosine substitution) on chromosome 6 of th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence, clinical picture, and disease burden of arthritis in patients with hereditary hemochromatosis. METHODS In this cross-sectional observational study of 199 patients with hemochromatosis and iron overload, demographic and disease-specific variables, genotype, and organ involvement were recorded. The prevalence, intensity, and localization of joint pain were...

The term ‘hemochromatosis’ was first used by von Recklinghausen, a German pathologist in the late 1800s [1]; he determined that the pigmentation seen in patients with advanced hemochromatosis was due to iron. In 1935, Joseph Sheldon, a British geriatrician, published a monograph describing over 300 patients with hemochromatosis [2]. He concluded that the disorder was an inherited defect with al...

By URSULA MULLER-EBERHARD, MARION E. ERLAXDSON, H. EARL GINN AND CARL H. SMITH T HALASSEMIA MAJOR is one of the conditions in which severe secondary hemochromatosis occurs as a principal complication. This type of hemochromatosis is manifest at an earlier age than is primary hemochromatosis. In addition to parenteral administration of iron in the form of frequent blood transfusions, increased i...

BACKGROUND Dupuytren's contracture (DC) and HFE hemochromatosis occur in some of the same at-risk populations and present with similar comorbid conditions. METHODS We estimated DC prevalence in two cohorts of white Alabama hemochromatosis probands (294 C282Y homozygotes, 67 C282Y/H63D compound heterozygotes) in a retrospective study. We performed logistic regressions on DC using the following...

Iron abnormalities are observed in the brains of Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients, but it is unclear whether common disorders of systemic iron overload such as hemochromatosis alter risks of AD. We used microarrays and real-time reverse transcription-PCR to investigate changes in the brain transcriptome of adult Hfe-/- mice, a model of hemochromatosis, relative to age- and gender-matched wildt...