ABSTRACT

The habits of Smoking can increase blood cholesterol levels in addition

to various other diseases that can be inflicted. One of the main ingredients of
cigarettes is nicotine which is a major component of cigarettes that can increase
the secretion of catecholamine thus increasing lipolysis. This causes triglyceride,
cholesterol and VLDL levels, as well as lowering HDL levels. This research is an
observational analytic method with a cross sectional study approach, with the
aim to find out whether there is a relationship between electric smokers and non-
smokers with total cholesterol levels in male students of the Faculty of Medicine,
Islamic University of North Sumatra. The sample in this study amounted to 64
people, with the sample of this study were 32 people who smoked electrically and
32 people were not smokers. Taken with a purposive sampling technique and meet
the inclusion criteria. Then a blood sample is taken from capillary blood to see
the level of total cholesterol. The unpaired T test results obtained value obtained
sig 0.00 (p> 0.05) which indicates that there is a statistically significant
relationship between electric smokers and increased cholesterol levels.

Keywords : smoking, do not smoking, total cholesterol increase

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