[Lipid composition of the serum in patients with alcoholism and chronic persistent hepatitis].

Patterns of free cholesterol, free fatty acids, triglycerides, phosphatide acids, phosphatidyl ethanolamine and total lipids were similar in blood serum of patients both with alcoholism and with chronic persisting hepatitis, consuming ethanol. In these diseases HBs-antigenemia constituted 15.4% and 25.2%, respectively. In the group of patients with alcoholism exhibiting high content of phospholipids HBsAg-carriage was not practically distinct from the frequency of HBs-antigenemia in the patients with chronic persisting hepatitis and was equal to 25.7%. This suggests that patients with alcoholism and high level of phospholipids in blood serum should be considered as a group of risk for development of chronic persisting hepatitis.