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Association between ABO blood group and susceptibility to COVID-19 infection in Egypt

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Last updated: 09 Apr 2025

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Background: many studies reported an associated between ABO blood groups and COVID-19 susceptibility and disease severity. Materials and methods: The data was obtained from data records of Alyameny laboratory files in Alexandria city, Egypt, for 504 COVID-19 mildly infected patients were collected from data records in 3 years (2020- 2022), in Al-Raml District, Alexandria city, Egypt and compared with the prevalence distribution of blood groups in the same district in previous study. Results: This study showed that blood group A had the highest COVID-19 infection percentage (45.1%), and the infection of O, B, and AB blood groups was 22.6%, 21%, and 11.3%, respectively,  the COVID-19 infection susceptibility in blood group A > O> B> AB, also the blood group A had the highest distribution (32.4%), and the distribution of O, B, and AB blood groups was 31.8%, 25.3%, and 10.5%, respectively, blood group distribution in blood group A > O> B> AB in the same manner as the percentage of COVID 19 infection, so this research demonstrated there is no associations between ABO blood group and susceptibility to COVID-19 mild infection.
Conclusion: This research demonstrated there is no association between ABO blood group and susceptibility to COVID-19 mild infection, the relationship between blood group, COVID-19 infection, and disease susceptibility or severity is still under debate and not fully understood.

DOI

10.21608/jmals.2022.421025

Keywords

ABO, Blood group, COVID-19, susceptibility

Authors

First Name

Ahmed

Last Name

Yameny

MiddleName

Abdelhalim

Affiliation

Society of Pathological biochemistry and hematology, Egypt

Email

dr.ahmedyameny@yahoo.com

City

Alexandria

Orcid

0000-0002-0194-9010

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4

Article Issue

4

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40048

Issue Date

2022-12-01

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2022-09-10

Publish Date

2022-12-04

Page Start

127

Page End

132

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2636-4093

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2636-4107

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421,025

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1,104

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Journal of Medical and Life Science

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https://jmals.journals.ekb.eg/

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Association between ABO blood group and susceptibility to COVID-19 infection in Egypt

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09 Apr 2025