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Klin Lab Diagn. 2021 Nov 29;66(11):661-665. doi: 10.51620/0869-2084-2021-66-11-661-665.

AB0 and rhesus blood groups as a risk factor for ARVI COVID-19.

Klinicheskaia laboratornaia diagnostika

Sergey Ivanovich Donskov, A Yu Bulanov, I B Simarova, V V Belyakova, O A Mayorova, E A Kravtsova, I O Vakulchik, T Yu Yurkevich, M V Beluga, L M Zubareva, N M Mikhailova, N I Vasiliev, L E Davydova, Yu V Burdinskaya, S B Kryukovskiy

Affiliations

  1. FDPO GBOU VO «Moscow State University of Medicine and Dentistry. A.I. Evdokimov» Ministry of Health of Russia.
  2. City Clinical Hospital No. 52 of the Moscow Department of Health.
  3. GBUZ «Blood Center nam. O.K. Gavrilov DZM».
  4. Gomel city polyclinic No. 1.
  5. Gomel city clinical hospital No. 2.
  6. Gomel City Clinical Hospital No. 3.
  7. State Institution Republican Scientific and Practical Center «Mother and Child».
  8. OGBUZ «Smolensk Blood Center».
  9. GBU RS (Y) «Blood Transfusion Station».
  10. OGBUZ «Clinical Hospital No. 1».
  11. FGBOU VO Smolensk State Medical University, Ministry of Health of Russia.

PMID: 34882350 DOI: 10.51620/0869-2084-2021-66-11-661-665

Abstract

The frequency of AB0 and Rhesus blood groups was studied in 12120 patients with COVID-19, 5180 convalescent plasma donors and 118801 healthy donors from Moscow, Smolensk, Yakutsk, Minsk and Gomel. In infected individuals, the frequency of blood group A was significantly higher than in uninfected individuals (41,54 % and 34,39 % respectively, p<0,05), and the frequency of blood group 0, on the contrary, was significantly lower (27,69 % and 36,71 %, p<0,05). The frequency of blood group A was particularly high among patients who died from ARVI COVID-19 - 45,51 % vs. 34,39 %, p=0,008. In some groups of patients, there was a decrease in the frequency of Rh-negative individuals (2,23 % vs. 8,30 %, p<0,001).

Keywords: AB0 blood groups; ARVI COVID-19; Rh factor

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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