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Table 1 Causes of death of 341 African Americans autopsied in the coroner/medical examiner office.1

From: Stainable hepatic iron in 341 African American adults at coroner/medical examiner autopsy

Causes of Death

Subjects, n

Percentage

Homicide

130

38.1

Natural Cause

107

31.4

Accident

90

26.4

Unknown

7

2.1

Suicide

5

1.5

Not Stated

2

0.6

  1. 1Chronic alcoholism was listed for 15 subjects (the respective cause of death in each subject was ruled to be "natural cause"). Two subjects were reported to have diabetes mellitus; one had grade 3 hepatocyte and grade 1 Kupffer cell iron. No subject was reported to have iron overload, hemochromatosis, heritable or acquired forms of anemia, or treatment with erythrocyte transfusion.
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BMC Clinical Pathology

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