HFE hemochromatosis in African Americans: Prevalence estimates of iron overload and iron overload-related disease.


Journal

The American journal of the medical sciences
ISSN: 1538-2990
Titre abrégé: Am J Med Sci
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 0370506

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
01 2023
Historique:
received: 01 12 2021
revised: 03 05 2022
accepted: 10 08 2022
pubmed: 13 9 2022
medline: 4 1 2023
entrez: 12 9 2022
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

Little is known about the prevalence of HFE (homeostatic iron regulator) hemochromatosis in African Americans (AA). We defined AA as self-identified AA, blacks, or non-Hispanic blacks. We defined hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotypes as p.C282Y/p.C282Y and p.C282Y/p.H63D. We compiled prevalences of these genotypes in AA using published population and cohort data and numbers of men and women ≥18 y‬ in 2018 U.S. Census estimates. We defined iron overload (IO) and IO-related disease by genotype as previously reported in population and cohort studies of hemochromatosis in whites of European ancestry. We used these definitions to estimate prevalences and numbers of AA with IO and IO-related disease associated with hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotypes. There were ∼16,287,599 men and ∼17,644,898 women. HFE genotypes and their respective prevalences were: p.C282Y/p.C282Y, 0.00017 (6/34,905) [95% confidence interval 0.000034, 0.00031] and p.C282Y/p.H63D, 0.0012 (41/33,596) [0.000084, 0.0016]. IO prevalences were: men 0.000076 [0.000072, 0.000081] and women 0.0000061 [0.0000050, 0.0000073]. IO-related disease prevalences were: men 0.000063 [0.000059, 0.000067] and women 0.0000021 [0.0000014, 0.0000027]. There were ∼1021 [961, 1091] men and ∼36 [25, 48] women with IO-related disease. We conclude that ∼1/25,061 AA >18 y have a hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotype and IO and that ∼1/32,103 AA >18 y have a hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotype and IO-related disease.

Sections du résumé

BACKGROUND
Little is known about the prevalence of HFE (homeostatic iron regulator) hemochromatosis in African Americans (AA).
METHODS
We defined AA as self-identified AA, blacks, or non-Hispanic blacks. We defined hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotypes as p.C282Y/p.C282Y and p.C282Y/p.H63D. We compiled prevalences of these genotypes in AA using published population and cohort data and numbers of men and women ≥18 y‬ in 2018 U.S. Census estimates. We defined iron overload (IO) and IO-related disease by genotype as previously reported in population and cohort studies of hemochromatosis in whites of European ancestry. We used these definitions to estimate prevalences and numbers of AA with IO and IO-related disease associated with hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotypes.
RESULTS
There were ∼16,287,599 men and ∼17,644,898 women. HFE genotypes and their respective prevalences were: p.C282Y/p.C282Y, 0.00017 (6/34,905) [95% confidence interval 0.000034, 0.00031] and p.C282Y/p.H63D, 0.0012 (41/33,596) [0.000084, 0.0016]. IO prevalences were: men 0.000076 [0.000072, 0.000081] and women 0.0000061 [0.0000050, 0.0000073]. IO-related disease prevalences were: men 0.000063 [0.000059, 0.000067] and women 0.0000021 [0.0000014, 0.0000027]. There were ∼1021 [961, 1091] men and ∼36 [25, 48] women with IO-related disease.
CONCLUSIONS
We conclude that ∼1/25,061 AA >18 y have a hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotype and IO and that ∼1/32,103 AA >18 y have a hemochromatosis-associated HFE genotype and IO-related disease.

Identifiants

pubmed: 36096187
pii: S0002-9629(22)00372-X
doi: 10.1016/j.amjms.2022.08.015
pii:
doi:

Substances chimiques

Hemochromatosis Protein 0
HFE protein, human 0
Histocompatibility Antigens Class I 0

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

IM

Pagination

31-36

Informations de copyright

Copyright © 2022 Southern Society for Clinical Investigation. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

Declaration of Competing Interest None of the authors has a conflict of interest to report.

Auteurs

James C Barton (JC)

Southern Iron Disorders Center, Birmingham, AL, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA. Electronic address: bartonjames336@gmail.com.

Corwin Q Edwards (CQ)

Department of Medicine, Intermountain Medical Center and University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT, USA.

Ronald T Acton (RT)

Southern Iron Disorders Center, Birmingham, AL, USA; Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL, USA.

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