Analysis concentration of zinc and copper elements in human serum, nails and hair using atomic absorption spectroscopy

Abstract

The method of knowing the levels of concentrations (serum, hair and nails) in the human body is an important way to predict the mechanism of occurrence of diseases. There is accumulating evidence that the metabolism of many trace elements changes in patients with diabetes and that these elements may have roles in this change, so the current study examined the levels of trace elements (zinc and copper) in the blood serum, nails, and hair of patients with diabetes and compared With healthy subjects, the concentrations were measured using atomic absorption spectroscopy. The results showed that the concentrations of the two elements were higher in the healthy groups than in the patients in the blood serum samples and the nail samples, exception the copper element in the hair samples, where the concentrations in the patient group were higher than those in the healthy group. The results showed that there was no effect of sex, age, and disease on the difference in concentrations between the two groups studied. As for copper element concentrations, there were slight differences for the effect of sex and disease type, but they were not statistically significant. After all the concentrations were studied statistically, it was found that the zinc element in the nail and hair samples has a statistical significance between the groups specified in the study. As for the copper element, the results proved the opposite.