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Study sheds important new light on inherited disorder causing iron overload

Research in today's New England Journal of Medicine shows hereditary hemochromatosis is much more common than previously thought and will spur more study to determine who is most likely to develop complications from the debilitating and potentially fatal disease, write two faculty members at the Saint Louis University School of Medicine. Their work appears in an editorial in the NEJM that accompanies the research.

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