Table 5.

Copper, iron and zinc concentrations in biological samples (blood, serum, saliva, nasal fluid, sputum, scalp hairs) of smokers and nonsmokers referent and pulmonary Tuberculosis patients of both genders.

Biological specimens	Non Smokers				Smokers
	Male		Female		Male		Female
	Referents	T.B patients	Referents	T.B patients	Referents	T.B patients	Referents	T.B patients
Zinc
Scalp hairs (μg/g)	239 ± 16.4	144 ± 16.6	207 ± 10.7	133 ± 12.5	195 ± 19.6	136 ± 20.6	189 ± 7.54	125 ± 11.7
	234-244	139-150	204 -211	128 -137	189-202	129-142	186-192	121-128
Blood (mg/l)	5.90 ± 0.22	4.90 ± 0.21	5.77 ± 0.18	4.54 ± 0.13	5.54 ± 0.20	4.60 ± 0.15	5.26 ± 0.18	4.13 ± 0.15
	5.83-5.97	4.82-4.97	5.71-5.83	4.50-4.59	5.47-5.61	4.55-4.64	5.19-5.33	4.08-4.18
Serum(mg/l)	1.19 ± 0.19	0.98 ± 0.08	1.12 ± 0.17	0.93 ± 0.09	1.11 ± 0.15	0.92 ± 0.06	1.08 ± 0.15	0.84 ± 0.06
	1.13-1.25	0.95-1.00	1.06-1.17	0.90-0.96	1.06-1.17	0.89-0.94	1.01-1.14	0.82 -0.87
Sputum(μg/l)	362 ± 13.8	244 ± 10.7	330 ± 35.5	242 ± 62.7	340 ± 12.4	230 ± 7.84	301 ± 38.4	220 ± 46.1
	358-366	241 -248	318 -341	219-265	335-344	227-232	285-316	205-235
Saliva (μg/l)	138 ± 12.7	100 ± 13.5	127 ± 12.9	94.6 ± 7.25	130 ± 13.8	89.9 ± 14.2	117 ± 10.8	86.0 ± 8.92
	134-142	95.7-104	123-132	91.9-97.3	125-134	85.7-94.2	113-122	83.1 -88.8
Nasal Fluid (μg/l)	167 ± 20.3	146 ± 10.4	137 ± 12.8	120 ± 12.6	160 ± 17.7	140 ± 7.20	121 ± 13.7	105 ± 10.4
	161-173	142-149	133-142	115-124	154-166	137-142	115-126	102-108
Iron
Scalp hairs (μg/g)	41.1 ± 3.33	33.0 ± 2.87	38.5 ± 2.26	31.72 ± 1.919	36.4 ± 2.38	30.3 ± 2.51	35.4 ± 1.98	29.1 ± 2.23
	40.1-42.1	32.1-34.0	37.8-39.3	31.01-32.42	35.5-37.2	29.5-31.0	34.5-36.2	28.4-29.8
Blood (mg/l)	483 ± 18.5	365 ± 15.96	471 ± 15.0	348.1 ± 9.98	443 ± 16.2	(331-338)	432 ± 14.8	322 ± 12.0
	478-489	360-370	466- 476	344-352	438-449	335 ± 11.4	426- 438	318-328
Serum (mg/l)	3.89 ± 0.65	2.30 ± 0.205	3.50 ± 0.55	2.701 ± 0.263	3.57 ± 0.50	(2.06-2.16)	3.21 ± 0.45	2.48 ± 0.20
	3.69-4.09	2.23-2.37	3.32-3.68	2.604-2.80	3.40-3.74	2.11 ± 0.16	3.03-3.40	2.41-2.54
Sputum (μg/l)	1.39 ± 0.29	1.02 ± 0.22	1.35 ± 0.14	1.00 ± 0.25	1.27 ± 0.20	(0.88-0.98)	1.23 ± 0.15	0.91 ± 0.19
	1.30-1.48	0.94-1.09	1.30-1.39	0.90-1.09	1.20-1.34	0.93 ± 0.15	1.17-1.30	0.85-0.97
Saliva (μg/l)	0.89 ± 0.08	0.60 ± 0.08	0.82 ± 0.08	0.60 ± 0.04	0.81 ± 0.08	0.55 ± 0.08	0.75 ± 0.06	0.55 ± 0.05
	0.86-0.91	0.57-0.62	0.79-0.84	0.58-0.61	0.78-0.84	0.52-0.57	0.72-0.78	0.53-0.56
Nasal Fluid (μg/l)	1.19 ± 0.14	0.87 ± 0.06	1.12 ± 0.10	0.90 ± 0.09	1.09 ± 0.12	0.79 ± 0.04	1.02 ± 0.11	0.82 ± 0.08
	1.14-1.23	0.84-0.89	1.08-1.15	0.86-0.93	1.05-1.13	0.78-0.81	0.98-1.07	0.79-0.85
Copper
Scalp hairs (μg/g)	15.3 ± 1.25	21.5 ± 1.87	16.1 ± 0.95	23.4 ± 1.42	13.3 ± 0.91	19.4 ± 1.46	14.5 ± 0.81	21.1 ± 1.62
	14.9-15.7	20.9-22.2	15.8-16.5	22.9-24.0	13.0-13.7	18.9-19.8	14.2-14.9	20.6- 21.6
Blood (mg/l)	1.06 ± 0.04	1.53 ± 0.06	1.11 ± 0.03	1.61 ± 0.09	0.95 ± 0.03	1.90 ± 0.06	0.99 ± 0.03	1.44 ± 0.05
	1.05-1.07	1.51-1.55	1.09-1.12	1.57-1.64	0.94-0.96	1.88-1.92	0.98-1.01	1.43-1.46
Serum (mg/l)	0.81 ± 0.13	1.17 ± 0.10	0.94 ± 0.14	1.37 ± 0.13	0.72 ± 0.10	1.05 ± 0.07	(0.80-0.90)	1.24 ± 0.10
	0.76-0.85	1.13-1.20	0.90-0.99	1.32-1.42	0.69-0.76	1.03-1.08	0.85 ± 0.11	1.20-1.27
Sputum (μg/l)	619 ± 130	898 ± 194	699 ± 75.2	101 ± 263	557 ± 89.8	809 ± 134	(596-663)	913 ± 191
	580-659	835-962	675-724	918-111	527-588	768-849	629 ± 80.5	851-975
Saliva (μg/l)	172 ± 15.8	249 ± 33.6	191 ± 19.4	278 ± 20.9	154 ± 16.5	224 ± 35.4	(166-179)	250 ± 26.4
	167-176	238-260	185-198	270-286	149-160	213-235	172 ± 15.8	242-259
Nasal Fluid (μg/l)	239 ± 29.0	348 ± 24.8	269 ± 25.0	391 ± 41.1	215 ± 23.8	313 ± 16.1	(231-254)	352 ± 35.0
	231-248	339-356	261-278	376-406	207-224	308-318	243 ± 27.4	341-363