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http://dx.doi.org/10.5762/KAIS.2015.16.5.3230

The Association of AUDIT Levels with Obesity Indices, Liver Function Tests, and Serum Lipid Levels in Male Health Checkup Examinees  

Kim, Seok-Ju (Department of Dental Hygiene, Daejeon Institute of Science and Technology)
Cho, Young-Chae (Department of Preventive Medicine and Public Health, Chungnam National University School of Medicine)
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Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society / v.16, no.5, 2015 , pp. 3230-3242 More about this Journal
Abstract
In this study, in an attempt to elucidate the relevance and the association between AUDIT level and health related indices such as obesity-related indices (BMI, waist circumference, body fat percentage), serum liver-enzyme levels (AST, ALT, GGT, total bilirubin) and serum lipid levels (TC, TG, HDL-C, LDL-C), data about including results of health checkup examination and questionnaire from 558 male examinees of 30-79 years old, who received a comprehensive health examination in the health promotion center of a university hospital during the period of January 1 to December 31, 2012, was analysed. As a results, the distribution of AUDIT rating of subjects was Zone I 58.2%, Zone II 25.3%, Zone III 7.0%, and Zone IV 9.5%. And AUDIT levels have significant relevance with age, smoking, body fat, GGT and TG. Especially, for the waist circumference, GGT and TG, the odds ratio indicating abnormality significantly increased in the higher AUDIT groups (Zone II~Zone IV) than a low-grade group (Zone I). This suggests that drinking problem with a high AUDIT level has a significant relevance with an abnormal increase of indices for obesity, serum liver-enzyme levels, serum lipid levels.
Keywords
Male; Health checkup examinee; AUDIT; Obesity index; Liver function test; Serum lipid level;
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