Screening Tests for Adults
Iron overload
The most common genetic disease in North European populations, with a gene frequency as high as 1 in 8, hereditary hemochromatosis, or iron overload disease, causes the iron from a person’s diet to accumulate in the body’s organs. Over a lifetime and without treatment, serious and even fatal health effects can result. The National Screening Committee’s most recent review of the evidence for screening for haemochromatosis (to be reviewed in 2005) concluded that screening should not be recommended.
In the Republic of Ireland, general population screening is not recommended but screening of first degree relatives of affected persons may be considered.
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