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Research Article

Changes of Some Blood Count Variables in Correlation with the Time of Alcohol Abuse

Esmeralda Thoma1*, Sonila Bitri2, Klodeta Mucaj1, Andrin Tahiri3 and Irida Pano1

1University of Medicine of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

2American Hospital of Tirana, Tirana, Albania

3UHC Mother Teresa-Tirana, Tirana, Albania

Corresponding Author:
Esmeralda Thoma
lecturer, Medical university of Tirana
of diagnostics, rruga e Dibres
Tirana, Albania
Tel: 00355699767811
E-mail: esmeraldahoxha@yahoo.com

Received date: March 17, 2015; Accepted date: April 23, 2015; Published date: April 30, 2015

Citation: Thoma E, Bitri S, Mucaj K, Tahiri A, Pano I (2015) Changes of Some Blood Count Variables in Correlation with the Time of Alcohol Abuse. J Addict Res Ther 6:221. doi:10.4172/2155-6105.1000221

Copyright: ©2015 Thoma E, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

Abstract

Introduction: The use of alcohol is already a phenomenon of many societies. It is estimated that the total number of the population classified as alcohol consumers in the world goes up to 2 billion, while 76.3 million people develop alcohol use disorder

Aim: The aim of this study is to find out the correlation between the time of alcohol abuse and changes of different variables in complete blood count.

Methods: This is a retrospective study, which included328 patients, hospitalized at two centers for treatment of alcohol use disorders at UHC “Mother Teresa”.

Results: 100 % of the patients of this study were male, due to the fact that AUD is mostly a male problem, but also because of the stigma that exists for women. The mean age of the patients was 42.9 ±10.8 years old (22-81 years old). The results of the study showed that WBC, RBC, Hgb, HCT had a poor negative correlation, but were significantly important with the time of alcohol consumption (p<0.01). Meanwhile, MCV, MCH, had a poor positive correlation with the time of alcohol consumption (respectively p=0.02 and p=0.03).

Conclusion: The time of problematic alcohol consumption is correlated with the changes of some variables of complete blood count.

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