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Stainable hepatic iron in 341 African American adults at coroner/medical examiner autopsy

BACKGROUND: Results of previous autopsy studies indicate that increased hepatic iron stores or hepatic iron overload is common in African Americans dying in hospitals, but there are no reports of hepatic iron content in other cohorts of African Americans. METHODS: We investigated the prevalence of h...

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Autores principales: Barton, James C, Acton, Ronald T, Richardson, Asia K, Brissie, Robert M
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2005
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC546193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15642113
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6890-5-2