Abstract
A comparative cross-sectional study was conducted on LPG stations workers in Najaf City, Iraq from December 2021 to January 2022. In which workers exposed liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) were compared with individuals who were not exposed (control group). The LPG gas plant workers were all males who work between 8 am to 2 pm daily. A total of eighty-eight (88) subjects took part in this study (control groups, n= 38 and workers, n=50) their mean age of workers 32.04 ± 1.289 years and for control 33.39 ± 1.680 years. In this study, and the mean Body Mean Index (BMI) of workers (27.30 ± 0.4479), and for control (27.87± 0.8296). The result showed a significant (P<0.05) and clear increase in the level of interleukin-8 of workers (1.538±0.4359pg/ml) compared to the control group (0.4138±0.02580 pg/ml).
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