Does liver function test result predict nutritional status evaluated by arm anthropometric indicators?
The data presented underline the correlation between the liver damage severity evaluated by LFT and the nutritional status estimated by anthropometric indicators. In our view these observations reflect the close relationship between liver function and the degree of liver damage to growth and current nutritional status.
Analysis of mtDNA and Y-DNA in 26 hemochromatosis patients suggested that they did not all originate from the same ancestral tribe in Africa. These findings were consistent with the theory that the original hemochromatosis mutation occurred after migration of these ancestral people to central Europe, possibly 4000 years previously.