Cardiovascular disease and ABO blood-groups in Africans. Are blood-group A individuals at higher risk of ischemic disease?: A pilot study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Since the discovery of the ABO blood group system by Karl Landsteiner in 1901, several reports have suggested an important involvement of the ABO blood group system in the susceptibility to thrombosis. Assessing that non-O blood groups in particular A blood group confer a higher risk of venous and arterial thrombosis than group O.Epidemiologic data are typically not available for all racial and ethnics groups.The purpose of this pilot study was to identify a link between ABO blood group and ischemic disease (ID) in Africans, and to analyze whether A blood group individuals were at higher risk of ischemic disease or not.

Methods

A total of 299 medical records of patients over a three-year period admitted to the cardiology and internal medicine department of militar

SUBMITTER: Ba DM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5883502 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature