Association of ABO blood group with COVID-19 severity, acute phase reactants and mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is the ongoing pandemic with multitude of manifestations and association of ABO blood group in South-East Asian population needs to be explored.

Methods

It was a retrospective study of patients with COVID-19. Blood group A, B, O, and AB were identified in every participant, irrespective of their RH type and allotted groups 1, 2,3, and 4, respectively. Correlation between blood group and lab parameters was presented as histogram distributed among the four groups. Multivariate regression and logistic regression were used for inferential statistics.

Results

The cohort included 1067 patients: 521 (48.8%) participants had blood group O as the prevalent blood type. Overall, 10.6% COVID-19-related mortality was observed at our

SUBMITTER: Ishaq U 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8670663 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature