Prevalence, Donation Practices, and Risk Assessment of Blood Donors With Hemochromatosis
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Many patients with hemochromatosis donate blood to treat their disease and most are no more likely than other blood donors to transmit a potentially hazardous virus. Hemochromatosis is caused by excessive iron in the body and one treatment is to remove blood periodically to lower iron levels before they damage organs.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 2001
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Demographic determinants of hepatitis C virus seroprevalence among blood donors
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The number of people infected with the hepatitis C virus (HCV) appears to be low in the general population but relatively high in certain groups. Researchers tested blood samples from 862,398 blood donors collected at five blood centers in the US. A total of 3,126 donors tested positive for HCV, a prevalence of 3.6 per 1,000. Men and women in their 30s had the highest seropositivity rates and men were more likely to be positive than women. Asians had the lowest seropositivity rates, while blacks and Hispanics had the highest. There was a strong link between education and seropositivity in those over 30, with the most highly educated donors having one-tenth the rate of those with little education. Those who had donated blood more than once had more than twice the rate of seropositivity. Individuals infected with HTLV-I, HTLV-II, hepatitis B virus or HIV were more likely to be seropositive.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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Estimates of infectious disease risk factors in US blood donors
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A small percentage of blood donors do not report risk factors for infectious disease when they give blood. Researchers sent an anonymous questionnaire to 34,726 blood donors who had given blood at one of five US blood centers. The questionnaire included questions about risk factors such as intravenous drug use, trading sex for money and homosexual sex. About 2% of the group had a risk factor that would have barred them from donating blood. More men withheld this information than women and first-time donors were more likely to withhold the information than repeat donors.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1997
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