Author(s): Esmeralda Thoma, Sonila Bitri, Klodeta Mucaj, Andrin Tahiri and Irida Pano
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.
