Effects of Alcohol Consumptionon Complete Blood Count and Serum Folate Levelamong Alcohol in Khartoum (2015)

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.