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Among those
patients, 8.7% had an excessive alcohol consumption (³
60 g/day – n = 33). It concerned mainly males (n = 31). 13.6 % of them
estimated their alcohol intake to be equal to or greater than 60 grams per
day compared to only 1.3 percent of females (n = 2). We analysed the
effect of alcohol on HH expression and observed that patients having
excessive alcohol consumption presented significantly higher iron parameters
and liver enzymes than patients having moderate alcohol intake
(Table 1).
Clinical signs were also more frequent in
excessive drinkers, notably skin pigmentation (OR=3.4 - p<0.001)
(Fig. 1)
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