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'Do It Yourself' Genetic Test Kit Promoted During 2005 Hemochromatosis Awareness Month

"Do it yourself!" is a suggestion often made by Sandra Thomas, founder and president of the American Hemochromatosis Society, a non-profit health organization based near Orlando, Florida. Thomas, a nationally recognized patient advocate, is referring to family genetic screening for hereditary hemochromatosis (HH), also known as genetic iron poisoning or iron overload disease, the most common genetic disease in the USA, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Genetic testing for the disease has been commercially available through doctors' offices since 1997, but most patients have never been tested for it. This is a tragic health situation, which Thomas wants to change through "do-it-yourself" genetic test kits and iron storage screening performed by patients themselves.

May 2005 is the American Hemochromatosis Society's annual "National Hereditary Hemochromatosis Genetic Screening Month," and, Thomas, once again is urging the public to use DAT (Direct Access Testing) to confirm, or rule out HH, in their families. When Thomas discovered that HealthCheckUSA (http://www.healthcheckusa.com ), a San Antonio, Texas-based company, offered direct testing, she immediately contacted Holt Vaughn, director, and urged him to add the hemochromatosis DNA genetic test kit and the iron blood tests- transferrin saturation percentage and serum ferritin to the menu of tests his company offered to the public.

Patients with the hemochromatosis gene mutations absorb excess iron from a normal diet. Symptoms, which can be devastating and costly to the health care system, include: chronic fatigue, infertility, arthritis, diabetes, sudden heart attack, primary liver cancer, and liver failure/heart failure resulting in the need for a liver and/or heart transplant. Hemochromatosis is treated through "bloodletting" identical to blood donation and is the treatment of choice for the disease. Hemochromatosis can affect men, women and children. In addition to an estimated 37 million "silent carriers" of HH, this country has another 2 to 3 million Americans who are at high risk for having hereditary hemochromatosis.

The American Hemochromatosis Society can provide doctors and patients with interviews/photos. Contact information: Sandra Thomas, President, or David G. Snyder, Vice President, American Hemochromatosis Society, 407-829-4488, Email: mail@americanhs.org, Web site: http://www.americanhs.org . Additional information about the DNA genetic self-test kit for hemochromatosis can be obtained from Holt Vaughn, President of HealthCheckUSA, at: http://www.healthcheckusa.com , Email: holt@healthcheckusa.com , Business: 1(800) 299-7226 x. 228 .

The American Hemochromatosis Society
http://americanhs.org
http://www.healthcheckusa.com





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