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To the Editor: Sempos and coworkers report data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES I) Epidemiologic Follow-up Study (NHEFS) and conclude that "higher transferrin-saturation levels were not associated with an increased risk of coronary heart disease or myocardial infarction" (April 21 issue).¹ Since their finding appears to conflict with ours,² we report the results of the extended follow-up of the Kuopio Ischaemic Heart Disease Risk Factor Study.

Our first report was based on an average follow-up of three years in a study cohort of 1931 men initially free of clinical coronary heart disease. With the average follow-up . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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