{"id":116221,"date":"2026-07-31T12:59:44","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=116221"},"modified":"2026-07-31T13:20:55","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:50:55","slug":"alanine-aminotransferase-alt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/alanine-aminotransferase-alt\/","title":{"rendered":"Alanine aminotransferase (ALT)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Alanine aminotransferase Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Union Health Ministry has urged people to monitor alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels as an early indicator of liver injury.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Alanine aminotransferase<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Alanine aminotransferase (ALT), also known as serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), is an <\/span><b>enzyme found predominantly inside liver cells,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> though it exists in other parts of your body.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It plays a key role in the metabolism of amino acids, breaking them down to produce energy for the body\u2019s essential functions.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>Usually, <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">you will have <\/span><b>low levels of ALT<\/b> <b>in your blood<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But <\/span><b>when liver cells are damaged <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">due to conditions like inflammation, infection, or injury, the <\/span><b>enzyme leaks into the bloodstream.\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>High levels of ALT <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">in your blood may be a<\/span><b> sign of a liver injury or disease.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, <\/span><b>since ALT<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is also <\/span><b>present in smaller amounts in other parts<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> of the body, an <\/span><b>elevated ALT level<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does <\/span><b>not necessarily indicate liver disease<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><b>should prompt further evaluation <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">to identify the source of the abnormality.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALT is one <\/span><b>component of the liver function test,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which includes other liver enzymes and measures of liver function.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although ALT is a sensitive indicator of ongoing liver injury, <\/span><b>patients can still have significant liver disease despite normal ALT values.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ALT testing is <\/span><b>performed on a blood sample,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with results typically available within a few hours.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although <\/span><b>many laboratories consider ALT levels below 40 units per litre as normal,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> interpretation d<\/span><b>epends on the patient\u2019s condition.\u00a0<\/b>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For example, lower thresholds are often applied in people with chronic hepatitis B or C. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>News: <a href=\"https:\/\/epaper.thehindu.com\/ccidist-ws\/th\/th_delhi\/issues\/196920\/OPS\/G14GAVTS1.1+G3AGAVUS5.1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TH<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alanine aminotransferase, also known as serum glutamic-pyruvic transaminase (SGPT), is an enzyme found predominantly inside liver cells. Read more about Alanine aminotransferase Test, Meaning, Role, Latest News.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":116230,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9121,21,22,23],"class_list":["post-116221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","tag-alanine-aminotransferase","tag-prelims-pointers","tag-upsc-current-affairs","tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116221"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116287,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116221\/revisions\/116287"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}