Assessment of Liver Enzymes among Gold Mining Workers in Alabedia Souk Nile River Sudan

Abstract

This study aims to measure the liver enzymes among gold mining workers and compare them with a 
group of healthy subjects as a control sample. This cross-sectional study was conducted Alabedia 
market, Nile River, Sudan. The study included 70 people, the gold prospectors by mercury as a test 
group (50 people) and healthy (20 people) as a control group. The venous blood samples were 
collected from the two groups to measure the rates of Hg liver enzymes. Statistical analysis of the 
results reviled that, there was a significant increase in serum level of ALP in the test group (82.8 
IU/L) when compared with the control group (70.25.1IU/L) with a P. value of 0.013, and an increase 
in serum level of ALT in the test group was (21.18 IU/L) when compared with a control group of 
(26.96.1IU/L) with P. value of 0.003. Statistical analysis of the results reviled that, there was no 
significant increase in serum level of AST when compared with a control group with a P-value of 
0.071. The mean level of serum mercury in the test group was (62.17) and in the control group was 
(0.72) with P. value of <0.001. This study established that there is a significant increase in the levels 
of serum mercury compared to the control group. The new workers are more exposed to mercury than 
the older workers because the new workers have no experience in contact with gold mining extraction.