Study of glucagon secretion in patients with hemochromatosis
1977
: Diabetes in idiopathic hemochromatosis has been considered to be secondary to islet cell damage resulting from the iron deposits. Plasma glucagon was measured by immunoassay using the pancreas specific 30-K antiserum, and was found to be normal or slightly elevated during arginine-infusion tests in patients exhibiting both hemochromatosis and pathological glucose tolerance. This suggests that diabetes in hemochromatosis is not due to a lesion resulting from the iron deposits. The two affections appear to be merely associated and are possibly genetically linked.
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