Metabolic investigations in patients with hepatitis B and C

Table 3 Enzyme activity in blood serum of patients with Hepatitis B/C and healthy controls

	Controls	Hepatitis B	Hepatitis C
ALK (IU/L)	115.64 ± 3.98	145.82 ± 8.47b	120.34 ± 5.84
ALT or s-GPT (mU/mL)	22.34 ± 1.67	59.24 ± 3.28c	89.60 ± 6.41c
CPK (IU/L)	106.56 ± 6.52	86.10 ± 3.34a	101.88 ± 3.99
LDH (U/L)	331.06 ± 9.13	353.72 ± 9.37a	395.48 ± 11.16c
AST or s-GOT (IU/L)	18.86 ± 0.71	40.88 ± 1.44c	45.80 ± 1.95c
ALT/AST ratio	1.13 ± 0.071	1.56 ± 0.083c	1.94 ± 0.11c

^aP < 0.05,

^bP < 0.01,

^cP < 0.001 vs controls.