The association of B blood group with SARS‐CoV‐2‐induced death in Babol, north of Iran

The ABO and RhD distributions of 955 RT-PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients, hospitalized between 20 March and 21 September of the year 2020 at the affiliated hospitals of Babol university of medical sciences, and 639 local COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) donors were compared with 618 randomly select...

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Published in:Vox Sanguinis 2022-02, Vol.117 (2), p.289-290
Main Authors: Hassani, Saeed, Kalantari, Narges, Jalali, Seyedeh Farzaneh, Shams, Mahmood, Ahmadnia, Zahra, Aghajani Daroonkola, Meysam, Bayani, Masomeh, Ghorbani, Housein
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Language:English
Subjects:
Blood Group Antigens
Blood groups
COVID-19
Humans
Iran
Risk Factors
SARS-CoV-2
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2
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Summary:The ABO and RhD distributions of 955 RT-PCR-confirmed COVID-19 patients, hospitalized between 20 March and 21 September of the year 2020 at the affiliated hospitals of Babol university of medical sciences, and 639 local COVID-19 convalescent plasma (CCP) donors were compared with 618 randomly selected pre-COVID-19 era hospitalized patients and 19,668 pre-COVID-19 era local healthy blood donors. In our study region, blood type B individuals are more frequent than group A (Table 1), in contrast to the most other parts of the world [2-5]. [...]these results propose that blood type B may possibly be connected to SARS-CoV-2-induced fatality in homogeneous population of Babol, north of Iran.
ISSN:0042-9007
1423-0410
DOI:10.1111/vox.13166