Blood cholesterol spectre in patients with acute and chronic inflammation of infectious origin
Panchyshyn, I.M.; Srokopud, O.O.; Zhakun, I.B.; Komarytsia, O.I.; Huk-Leshnevs'ka, S.O.; Panchyshyn, M.V.
Likars'ka Sprava 8: 70-78
2006
ISSN/ISBN: 1019-5297 PMID: 17427430 Document Number: 599562
Low level of blood cholesterol is often found in patients with diseases which pathogenesis is mainly associated with inflamation. To detect blood cholesterol spectre, 383 patients with acute and chronic infections have been observed, level of blood cholesterol of 1259 patients with different pathology was retrospectively analyzed. It was found that an increase in frequency of low cholesterol and decrease in frequency of high cholesterol in patients with diseases not associated with infections do not depend on the age of patients. Extremely low level of cholesterol (Cholesterol < or = 100 mg/dl) is found in 12,8% of patients with inflamation of infectious origion, oftener in patients with community-acquired pneumonia and chronic virus hepatitis. Patients with intestinal infections have extremely low level of cholesterol; two-fold oftener than healthy persons have.