Yes it is, but generally for rather more clinically significant levels. The difference between men and women exists but is much much smaller than the difference you get from, say, hereditary hemochromatosis. Ordinarily I hate nomenclature quibbles but labelling the normal state of half the population as a pathology seems out of place.
Well, nobody claims all males suffer from iron overload.
On the other hand, the correlation between blood donation and mortality seems to suggest that there is a nontrivial amount of people (very likely males) with “clinically significant levels” who are probably not aware of that fact.
Wouldn’t necessarily call it iron overload, but definitely higher levels.
Hmmm… as someone who is a carrier for hemochromatosis (thanks 23andme!) perhaps I should consider this more than the average person...
I thought it was a pretty standard term.
Yes it is, but generally for rather more clinically significant levels. The difference between men and women exists but is much much smaller than the difference you get from, say, hereditary hemochromatosis. Ordinarily I hate nomenclature quibbles but labelling the normal state of half the population as a pathology seems out of place.
Well, nobody claims all males suffer from iron overload.
On the other hand, the correlation between blood donation and mortality seems to suggest that there is a nontrivial amount of people (very likely males) with “clinically significant levels” who are probably not aware of that fact.