Posted on 06/01/2023 11:11:23 AM PDT by Olog-hai
The Irish Hemochromatosis Association has called for a national strategy to diagnose and treat the blood condition hemochromatosis.
Ireland has the highest incidence of hereditary hemochromatosis, sometimes called “The Celtic curse”. According to the IHA, 20,000 people have been diagnosed with the condition while at least another 20,000 are unaware that they have it.
Hereditary hemochromatosis is an iron overload in the blood caused by a gene that is prevalent in fair-skinned people of Celtic and European origin. If left untreated, it can cause irreversible damage to organs of the body including the heart, pancreas and liver.
Professor John Ryan, a liver expert at Dublin’s Beaumont Hospital, says the condition can cause “liver-scarring, cirrhosis, or cancer”. Speaking on RTÉ Radio News At One, Professor Ryan said Ireland should be leading the way on the diagnosis and care of people with the condition. “We’ve the highest rate in the world,” Professor Ryan said. “One in 83 people are predisposed to it, or have it. Treatment should be the same in all parts of the country.” …
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After they lost to the Heat, I believe it.
I have lots of Celtic ancestry. My father had this, and it was pretty debilitating at the time but, after the treatment, he recovered and had thirty-five more years of good health.
When I lived in NYC, I often heard a term “Irish Curse”. It referred to the small size of a man’s niblets rather than a blood condition.
But I digress....
In epic fashion. 😆
And here I thought it was thyroid disease. Or, secondly, what a therapist friend of mine once said, “Alcoholism in the men; depression in the women.”
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