Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Susceptibility

  • Jiao Zhao
  • , Yan Yang
  • , Hanping Huang
  • , Dong Li
  • , Dongfeng Gu
  • , Xiangfeng Lu
  • , Zheng Zhang
  • , Lei Liu
  • , Ting Liu
  • , Yukun Liu
  • , Yunjiao He
  • , Bin Sun
  • , Meilan Wei
  • , Guangyu Yang
  • , Xinghuan Wang
  • , Li Zhang
  • , Xiaoyang Zhou
  • , Mingzhao Xing
  • , Peng George Wang*
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

To explore any relationship between the ABO blood group and the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) susceptibility, we compared ABO blood group distributions in 2173 COVID-19 patients with local control populations, and found that blood group A was associated with an increased risk of infection, whereas group O was associated with a decreased risk.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)328-331
Number of pages4
JournalClinical Infectious Diseases
Volume73
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 15 Jul 2021

Keywords

  • ABO blood group
  • COVID-19
  • SARS-CoV-2
  • coronavirus
  • disease susceptibility

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