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. 2020 Aug 4:ciaa1150. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1150

Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility

Jiao Zhao 1,#, Yan Yang 2,#, Hanping Huang 3,#, Dong Li 4,#, Dongfeng Gu 1, Xiangfeng Lu 5, Zheng Zhang 2, Lei Liu 2, Ting Liu 3, Yukun Liu 6, Yunjiao He 1, Bin Sun 1, Meilan Wei 1, Guangyu Yang 7, Xinghuan Wang 8, Li Zhang 3, Xiaoyang Zhou 4, Mingzhao Xing 1, Peng George Wang 1,
PMCID: PMC7454371  PMID: 32750119

Abstract

To explore any relationship between the ABO blood group and the COVID-19 susceptibility, we compared ABO blood group distributions in 2,173 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.

Keywords: ABO blood group, coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19, disease


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