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The researchers also compared the patients’ blood group distributions to that of a group representative of the general population — totaling 3,694 people — in Wuhan.

Data from the researchers showed that blood group A had a significantly higher risk for COVID-19, compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O had a significantly lower risk for the infectious disease compared with non-O blood groups.

According to Zhao, “people with blood group A have a significantly higher risk for acquiring COVID-19, compared with non-A blood groups; whereas blood group O has a significantly lower risk for the infection, compared with non-O blood groups.”

Although, the study is yet to be published in a peer-reviewed journal and other experts have not yet had a chance to assess the researchers’ methodology and findings, Head of Haematology and Blood Transfusion at the Lagos University Teaching Hospital, Idi-Araba, Prof. Sulaiman Akanmu, said, “It’s not impossible, such a thing may happen.”

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Speaking with PUNCH HealthWise, Prof. Akanmu said the study was new to him, adding that blood group type had been associated with varieties of disease states.


“It is known that a particular disease is more commonly found in a particular blood group type or that a blood group type is more protective of development of a particular disease, but that it is related to COVID-19 is new to me.

“If it is true, it will not be difficult to explain.”

Continuing, he said, “For example, if an agent is going to attach to a cell, then that particular cell must have on its surface membrane a receptor that the infectious agents could attach to.

SOURCE: https://punchng.com/people-with-type-a-blood-more-at-risk-of-covid-19-study/

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