Clin Infect Dis . Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility

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Clin Infect Dis


. 2020 Aug 4;ciaa1150.
doi: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1150. Online ahead of print.
Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility


Jiao Zhao[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Yan Yang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Hanping Huang[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Dong Li[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Dongfeng Gu[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Xiangfeng Lu[SUP] 5 [/SUP], Zheng Zhang[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Lei Liu[SUP] 2 [/SUP], Ting Liu[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Yukun Liu[SUP] 6 [/SUP], Yunjiao He[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Bin Sun[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Meilan Wei[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Guangyu Yang[SUP] 7 [/SUP], Xinghuan Wang[SUP] 8 [/SUP], Li Zhang[SUP] 3 [/SUP], Xiaoyang Zhou[SUP] 4 [/SUP], Mingzhao Xing[SUP] 1 [/SUP], Peng George Wang[SUP] 1 [/SUP]



Affiliations

• PMID: 32750119
• DOI: 10.1093/cid/ciaa1150

Abstract

To explore any relationship between the ABO blood group and the COVID-19 susceptibility, we compared ABO blood group distributions in 2,173 COVID-19 patients with local control populations, and found that blood group A was associated with an increased risk of infection, whereas group O was associated with a decreased risk.

Keywords: ABO blood group; COVID-19; SARS-CoV-2; coronavirus; disease.