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. 2022 May 27;11(11):3029. doi: 10.3390/jcm11113029

Table 2.

Risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection amongst blood groups in cohort studies and in cross-sectional studies.

Study Blood Group A Blood Group B Blood Group AB Blood Group O Overall
Risk Pos./Tot. Risk Pos./Tot. Risk Pos./Tot. Risk Pos./Tot. Risk
Ahmed et al., 2021 [26] 27.0% 34/126 28.4% 19/67 41.4% 12/29 15.8% 21/133 24.2%
Barnkob et al., 2020 [27] 1.6% 3296/202,507 1.7% 897/53,735 1.8% 378/21,160 1.5% 2851/196,252 1.6%
Boudin et al., 2020 [28] 77.3% 521/674 73.8% 135/183 77.1% 54/70 74.5% 553/742 75.7%
Coluk et al., 2021 [29] 68.3% 69/101 62.5% 20/32 55.6% 5/9 72.5% 50/69 68.2%
Haizler-Cohen et al., 2021 [30] 15.2% 145/955 14.2% 72/508 14.9% 22/148 15.8% 209/1319 15.3%
Horspool et al., 2021 [31] 17.4% 4/23 22.2% 2/9 0.0% 0/2 13.3% 4/30 15.6%
Ibrahim et al., 2021 [32] 10.2% 18/176 8.0% 7/88 6.3% 1/16 13.1% 40/306 11.3%
Khosroshahi et al., 2021 [33] 9.3% 21/225 6.9% 11/160 0.0% 0/52 5.2% 12/233 6.6%
Latz et al., 2020 [35] 16.6% 440/2649 19.4% 201/1035 19.8% 61/308 16.1% 587/3656 16.9%
Lehrer et al., 2021 [36] 5.9% 323/5516 5.3% 66/1238 5.3% 23/431 5.7% 308/5390 5.7%
Levi et al., 2021 [37] 32.6% 816/2505 33.2% 237/713 30.0% 71/237 30.4% 913/3002 31.5%
Mahallawi et al., 2021 [38] 29.2% 117/401 12.6% 32/253 16.4% 9/55 15.1% 76/503 19.3%
Niles et al., 2020 [39] 11.8% 11,017/93,750 11.8% 4282/36,140 11.4% 1153/10,133 13.0% 17,739/136,513 12.4%
Quiroga et al., 2021 [40] 21.9% 34/155 15.2% 5/33 25.0% 2/8 15.3% 19/124 18.8%
Ray et al., 2021 [41] 3.0% 2420/81,797 4.1% 1378/33,536 3.8% 390/10,221 2.9% 2883/100,002 3.1%
Schetelig et al., 2021 [42] 5.3% 2345/44,131 4.8% 570/11,866 5.3% 285/5370 4.7% 1916/40,975 5.0%
Zhang et al., 2021 [43] 9.4% 728/7744 10.0% 177/1763 9.1% 56/613 9.1% 682/7466 9.3%

Notes: Pos. = individuals positive for SARS-CoV-2; Tot. = total number of individuals tested for SARS-CoV-2.