Iron status — ferritin + transferrin saturation — Birmingham.

Birmingham, AL is home to Dr. James C. Barton, Clinical Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham and Medical Director of the Southern Iron Disorders Center -- a co-investigator on the Hemochromatosis and Iron Overload Screening (HEIRS) Study, which screened 99,711 primary-care adults across 5 US/Canadian field centers and found HFE C282Y homozygosity in 0.44% of non-Hispanic whites versus far lower rates in other ancestries (Adams PC, Barton JC, McLaren CE, et al. N Engl J Med. 2005;352(17):1769-1778). Iron sits in a narrow healthy window: too little drives fatigue and anemia, too much silently damages the liver, heart, and pancreas over decades. Ferritin plus transferrin saturation screens both ends, but ferritin alone misleads because it also rises with inflammation.

Where

Accredited lab / clinic draw, Birmingham, AL · Open the map

Pay

$320 proposed

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Proof

Ferritin (ng/mL) + transferrin saturation (%) with reference ranges, interpreted together with an inflammation flag (hs-CRP if available)

This is exactly what gets it approved. Nothing settles without it.

Level

intermediate

Open until

2026-12-30

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How this work is done

A documented method, so this packet comes out the same whoever does it.

Bring

• accredited-lab requisition (ferritin + iron + TIBC for TSAT)
• chain-of-custody label
• note on inflammation/illness and any iron supplementation

Steps

1. 1. Arrange ferritin plus serum iron and TIBC (to compute transferrin saturation) through an accredited lab.
2. 2. Record any current illness/inflammation (ferritin rises as an acute-phase reactant) and iron supplement or red-meat-heavy diet.
3. 3. Capture ferritin (ng/mL) and transferrin saturation (%) with reference ranges.
4. 4. Interpret both together against reference ranges — high TSAT with high ferritin points to overload; low ferritin to deficiency — for flagging only.
5. 5. Attach the report; log both values, the inflammation flag, and the interpretation; sign it.

What counts as done

• Ferritin (ng/mL) and transferrin saturation (%) from an accredited lab with reference ranges
• Note whether an inflammatory state is present (ferritin is an acute-phase reactant)
• Both values placed against reference ranges for flagging only

Proof is measured against these, not judged by taste.