The Iron Disorders Institute Guide to Hemochromatosis
Edited by Cheryl Garrison Wylie Burke, Ph.D., M.D.; P. D. Phatak, M.D.; E. D. Weinberg, Ph.D., scientific advisers Foreword by Dr. Herbert Bonkovsky
Hemochromatosis is one of modern medicine's greatest oversights. A disorder that few Americans are able to pronounce at first glance, it is an inherited disorder of iron metabolism, not a blood disease, that can be fatal if not detected in time. Commonly misdiagnosed as arthritis, diabetes, heart disease, impotence, depression, and liver disease, hereditary hemochromatosis is common in people of northern European descent and is most prominent among the Scotch-Irish.
Undetected hemochromatosis frequently is fatal, and that is why it is emerging as one of the most important health issues of the new millenium. It's real, it's common, and it can kill you.
The Iron Disorders Institute Guide to Hemochromatosis is a reference book for home use. It contains helpful charts, diet and nutritional information, treatment guidelines, a glossary of terms, and compelling personal stories of people living with the disorder. Written by the top researchers and experts in university and research hospitals from all over the United States, it is destined to become the definitive source for information about the disorder for millions of families worldwide.
| P. D. PHATAK, M.D., is Head of Hematology and Medical Oncology at Rochester General Hospital. He has served as Medical Adviser to Mary Gooley Hemophilia Center and is the lead investigator of a population screening program for hemochromatosis at Rochester General Hospital. |
| WYLIE BURKE, Ph.D., M.D., is Associated Professor and Chair of the Department of Medical History in the Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Genetics, at the University of Washington, Seattle. She was the founding director of the Women's Health Care Center at UW Medical Center-Roosevelt. |
| E. D. WEINBERG, professor of microbiology, emeritus, Indiana University, is world renowned for more than five decades of scientific publications about iron. He lives in Bloomington, Indiana. |
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ISBN-10: 1-58182-160-3 (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 978-1-58182-160-4 (Paperback)
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