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Association of ABO and Rh blood group with susceptibility, severity and mortality of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - A tertiary hospital based study in Gondia Maharashtra, India

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Author Details : Pravin S Jadhao, Jayanta Saha*, Thomas Beeson

Volume : 14, Issue : 3, Year : 2024

Article Page : 708-714

https://10.18231/j.pjms.2024.126

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Abstract

Background: Couple of years past since the first inception of SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus-2; (COVID-19) from Wuhan china, spreading its tentacles across the world resulting in a pandemic situation of modern times, leading to numerous mortal death a cross the world. Since classical blood group ABO and Rhesus blood group are linked with various viral diseases the objective of the study was to find out if any association of susceptibility, severity and mortality of COVID – 19 with classical blood group ABO and Rhesus blood.
Objective: The main objective of this study is to find if any association of susceptibility (vulnerability) of COVID-19 infection and ABO & Rhesus blood type among Indian population.
Materials and Methods: A hospital based study conducted retrospectively among SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) infected hospitalized patient above the age of 18 years of both sexes. A total of 583 (Five hundred eighty-three) COVID-19 positive adult hospitalized patients were taken for this study and equal number of non COVID-19 adult patients was taken as a comparison group. Statistical significant was tested using Chi-square test.
Results : No significant statistical association was obtained between classical blood group ABO and Rhesus blood type and susceptibility to COVID-19 infection.
Our study result also shows no significant association of classical blood group ABO and Rhesus blood type with severity or mortality of COVID-19 infection.
Conclusion: Our study result shows COVID-19 positive cases are more found in AB type and least in O type blood, though the study result reported no statistically significant association.
 

Keywords: ABO blood Group, COVID­19, Susceptibility

How to cite : Jadhao P S, Saha J, Beeson T, Association of ABO and Rh blood group with susceptibility, severity and mortality of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) - A tertiary hospital based study in Gondia Maharashtra, India. Panacea J Med Sci 2024;14(3):708-714

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