The effect of alcohol on serum lipid composition in hepatitis B virus carriers
Makarov, V.K.
Gigiena i Sanitariia 1: 38-40
2003
ISSN/ISBN: 0016-9900 PMID: 12680097 Document Number: 565368
The study was undertaken to examine adaptive reactions in alcoholics who were HBsAg carriers by using the values of the serum lipid spectrum. Under influence of an alcoholic factor, the alcoholic HBsAg carriers were shown to have higher levels of lipids and phospholipids and the absolute content of their fraction in the serum; the relative levels of free cholesterol, lysophosphatidylcholine, lysophosphatidylethanolamine, sphyngomyelin, and phosphatidylcholine were lower and those of cholesterol esters were higher than those in patients with acute hepatitis B. Thus, no normal adaptive reactions due to a long alcohol abuse might be a cause of ABsAg carriage in patients with alcoholism.