Comparison Of Fasting Blood Glucose Level Among Khat Chewers And Non-khat Chewers In Diabetics And Healthy Individuals At Hiwot Fana Specialized University Harar Eastern Ethiopia.

Background: -Khat chewing is a widely heled practice in our society. Moreover, studies aboutrnkhat chewing effect are contradictory. There is limited data about khat effect on blood glucosernspecially in our setting. Therefore, this study aims to investigate this issue.rnObjective: In this study, we compared FBS among khat chewer and khat chewer diabetic andrnhealthy subjects. rnMethod: A cross-sectional study include 200 confirmed diabetic and healthy subjects grouped inrnto four groups (diabetic khat chewers n=50, diabetic non khat chewer n=50, healthy khat chewerrnn=50 and healthy non-khat chewer n=50). FBS was determined by enzymatic method (GOD&GrnHK) using Biosystem A25 and COBAS 6000 chemistry analyzers at Hiwot Fana and St. Peterrnhospital clinical chemistry laboratory respectively. Non-parametric tests Mann-Whitney test (2independentrnrnsample test) and Kruskal-Wals test (K-independents sample test) were used torncompare fasting blood glucose among khat chewer and non-khat chewer with in the groups andrnbetween groups respectively. P

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