THE COMPARATIVE STUDY OF THE LIVER FUNCTION INDICES AMONG MOTORCYCLE OPERATORS AND NON MOTORCYCLE OPERATORS IN ONDO WEST LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA, ONDO STATE.

The use of motorcycle (Okada) for carrying passengers from one destination to another for commercialpurposes has crept into Nigerian’s transportation activities and is now popular, possibly because it is fasterespecially when there is terrible hold ups and can also drop an individual at his door step. Nevertheless,during the course of their occupation motorcyclist consume and abuse some substances. Among substancesthat they abuse are alcoholic drinks, tobacco, marijuana, cocaine, heroin, opiates, hallucinogens, inhalants,local psychoactive drugs and stimulants. Due to the unhealthy lifestyle they live during the course of theiroccupation this may have adverse effect on the physiology of some organs in their body such as the liver.Aim: The aim of this study is to investigate the effect of motorcycle operations on the liver functionparameters. Methods: A total of 90 participants were selected using purposive sampling methods havingdetermined the sample size. A cross sectional design and structured questionnaire was adopted for this studyand the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance on the SPSS version 21 window. Results: Thestudy revealed that there was a significant difference (p<0.05) in the mean ±SD of some liver enzymes ofmotorcycle operators (subjects) and controls. Conclusion: It was concluded that unhealthy lifestyle they liveduring the course of their occupation have adverse effect on the physiology of the liver