Elevated Serum Transferrin Saturation and Mortality
Open Access
- 1 March 2004
- journal article
- Published by Annals of Family Medicine in Annals of Family Medicine
- Vol. 2 (2), 133-138
- https://doi.org/10.1370/afm.25
Abstract
BACKGROUND A large proportion of US adults have elevated transferrin saturation, an indicator of a predisposition for iron overload. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the relationship between elevated serum transferrin saturation and mortality.Keywords
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