TY - JOUR T1 - Glucose-6-Phosphate Dehydrogenase Deficiency and Coronary Artery Disease AU - Seyedian, Seyed Masood AU - Ahmadi, Farzaneh AU - Ghorbani, Parvin AU - Hassan Adeland, Seyed Mohammah AU - Aletayeb, Seyed Mohammah Hassan JO - International Journal of Tropical Medicine VL - 11 IS - 5 SP - 186 EP - 188 PY - 2016 DA - 2001/08/19 SN - 1816-3319 DO - ijtmed.2016.186.188 UR - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=ijtmed.2016.186.188 KW - G6PD deficiency KW -coronary artery disease KW -cholesterol KW -X-recessive KW -LDL AB - Glucose-6-phosphatase dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency is the most common enzyme deficiency in humans, affecting 400 million people worldwide. It is inherited as an X-recessive linked disorder. Evidence indicates that G6PD-deficient patients are protected against cardiovascular disease. Thus we decided to test this hypothesis in male subjects expressing the G6PD deficiency phenotyp. We evaluated 420 man patients with CoronaryAartery Disease (CAD) admitted for angiography in Ahvaz Golestan Hospital. The G6PD phenotype was determined using fluorescent spot test method. Twenty-eight out of 420 (6.7%) patients were G6PD deficient. In addition, the frequency of dyslipidemia in patients with G6PD deficiency was lower than patients with normal enzyme activity (p<0.05). Our findings confirmed the hypothesis that susceptibility to CAD in G6PD-deficient patients is less. We suggest that protective efect may reduce LDL and total cholesterol level by inhibiting of cholesterol biosynthesis. ER -