Assessment of Platelet Count and Platelet Indices among Sudanese Smokers in Khartoum state

Abstract

This is analytical case control study conducted in Khartoum state on smokers Sudanese people as study group and healthy volunteers as control group in Al-Rebat Medical Specialist from september to november 2018. Forty healthy smoker’s male as (cases) and forty healthy non-smokers male as (controls) were informed about study agreed for participation. Two and half ml of EDTA venous blood was collected and analyzed automatically (URIT- 3010) to measure platelets count and platelets indices (MPV, PDW, PCT, P-LCR) The data analyzed using SPSS(version 16)computerized program. All participant age was between (18-45) years. (18—25) was the most frequent age group within smokers and non-smoker (65%, 71%) respectively. while the age group (26—45) was the least frequent in both study subject (30 %, 29%). Within smokers (85%) was smoking less than 10 year while (15%) was smoking more than 10 years (15%)and (50%) of smokers get 10 and less cigarette per day and (50%) of smokers get more than 10 cigarette per day Results showed that the platelet count and platelet indices ( MPV , PDW , PCT , P-LCR ) were insignificant different between cigarette smoker and non-smoker (P-value 0.560 , 0.285 , 0.638 , 0.325 and 0.470 respectively ).