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. 2020 Aug;49(8):1582–1584. doi: 10.18502/ijph.v49i8.3910

Table 1:

The relationship of COVID-19 with ABO blood group, age, and genus

Variable Blood Group
A B AB O
Controls (Iran)
80,982,137 30% 24.7% 7.8% 37.5%
Death cases
76 34 (44.7%) 17 (22.4%) 4 (5.3%) 21 (27.6%)
χ2 6.000 0.383 1.385 3.030
P 0.014 0.536 0.239 0.082
Genus
Male 73 (77.7%)
Female 21 (22.3%)
χ2 28.766
P < 0.001
Age (yr)
<20 1(1.1%)
20–39 7(7.4%)
40–59 36 (38.3%)
59< 50 (53.2%)
Mann-Whitney Test 405959< P value = 0.004