TY - JOUR ID - TI - Biochemical Tests as an Indicator for the Effects of Electrical Generator Exhausts on Human Health AU - Inaam Noori Ali AU - Hayder G. Jawad AU - Rahafat R. Mohammad PY - 2022 VL - 63 IS - 1 SP - 98 EP - 106 JO - Iraqi Journal of Science المجلة العراقية للعلوم SN - 00672904 23121637 AB - Diesel generators are used in various locations throughout Baghdad city, centralIraq, when the public electricity power is in outage. The main purpose of the currentresearch is to investigate possible changes in certain biochemical parameters in theblood of operators of diesel generators in different locations Baghdad city, at bothRusafa and Karkh sides. The workers were divided according to the number ofworking years.Serum urea, creatinine, alkaline phosphatase (AlP), aspartate aminotransferase(AST), alanine aminotransferase (ALT), albumin, total serum bilirubin (TSB), andglomerular filtration rate (GFR) were analyzed in samples from forty workers andcompared with ten healthy persons as a control group. The findings revealed asubstantial reduction in the amounts of creatinine and albumininine (p <0.01( andthe value of GFR, while the levels of AlP, AST, ALT, and TSB recorded asignificant increase in the sera of the workers compared with the control group.Differences in the serum levels of urea were statically insignificant.The temporal analysis also showed that the continuous work in the generators’locations for many years causes disorders in the biochemical parameters in the bloodof workers.Keywords: Biochemical blood parameters, diesel electric generators, Baghdad city.

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