Iqra Malik, Shahid Raffad Asim, Atika Malik.
Relationship between Ischemic Stroke and Raised Gamma Glutamyl Transferase.
J Pak Society Int Med Jan ;2(2):127-30.

Objectives: To demonstrate the relation between stroke due to vascular insufficiency and elevated serum Gammaglutamyl transferase. Methods: In this research 390 individuals were studied, 195 cases were patients who had first-ever event of acute ischemic stroke within a day. Remaining 195 were controls who were healthy individuals who accompanied the patients (within +- 5 years and of same sex). Frequency of raised GGT was compared between both groups. Results: Out of this sample of 390 patients 88 (22.6%) had elevated GGT. 26.7% of patients (cases) and 18.5% subjects (controls) had raised GGT (p value greater than 0.05). Odds ratio was 1.44 ((at 95% CI, 0.992 to 2.103). Sex, age, smoking, BMI did not change outcome. Conclusion: Hence we conclude that ischemic stroke and increased GGT has no association with each other.

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