Abstract:
This descriptive cross sectional study to investigate the effect of alcohol consumption on CBC and folate level in alcoholic consumer in Khartoum state from 1-3-2015 to-1-8-2015.
The participant were 70 adult male 50 ,of them are alcohol concumerand 20 ,are non- alcohol aquestiner was starting after informative consent was obtain from each participant theeducational level of subject was12.5%primary, and54% had higher education and the marital status was 35.6% married and64.4% single. The participants not under treatment month before taken the sample ,the age is between 20-65 years old , 5 ml of venous blood from each participants were tacken.2.5ml put in EDTA container to measure CBC by sysmex KX 21N and 2.5ml put in plain container to measurefolate level use tosoh. Result s were analyzed by statistical software packages were averaged ±SD and p.value are obtained .
Results show no significant effect in(HB,PCV, MCV, MCH,MCHC, TWBCs and folate level) with p.value (≥0.05).
Also there is inversebetween folate level and MCV among the study group.
Macrocyte, target cells and crenated cells were found in the peripheral blood of somealcoholic subject.
