Evaluation Of The Serum Choleslerol, Cadmium and Urine Cadmium Levels in Smokers

Abstract

The prevalent deaths from heart diseases resulting from smoki ng prom pted thi s stud y to determi ne the serum cholesterol and cadmium i n smokers. Higher levels of serum cholesterol (3.22 ±0. 1 8 mmol/L) wee obtained i n smokers than i n the non smokers (2.68 ±0 . 1 1 mmol/ L). Also serum cad mi um was hi gher i n smokers ( l.32± 0.fl mmol/L) and 0.13 ±0.04 µ1/L) for non smokers. U ri ne cad mi um was 0.89±0 .05m mol/ L for smokers and 0.87 ±0 .03 µl / L for non smokers. Durat i on and freq uency of smoki ng a l so had an elevati ng effect on the serum levels of cholesterol, and cad m i um as well as on the uri ne cad m i u m l evel. I n all the samples analysed , the cadmi um level did not exceed the WHO u pper acceptabl e l i m i t of 2µ 1/ L .