Research in Wuhan and Shenzhen indicates patients with the blood group had higher rate of infection and tended to get more severe symptomsThose with type O ‘had a significantly lower risk for the infectious disease’ compared to others
, while those with type O seem more resistant, according to a preliminary study of patients in China who contracted the disease known as Covid-19.
“People of blood group A might need particularly strengthened personal protection to reduce the chance of infection,” wrote the researchers led by Wang Xinghuan with the Centre for Evidence-Based and Translational Medicine at Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University. Of 206 patients who had died from Covid-19 in Wuhan, 85 had type A blood, which was 63 per cent more than the 52 with type O. The pattern existed across different age and gender groups.
Blood types are determined by a so-called antigen, a material on the surface of red blood cells that can trigger an immune response. Austrian biologist Karl Landsteiner discovered the main blood groups in 1901, naming them type A, B, AB and O. The discovery allowed for safe blood transfusions by matching blood types in patients.
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