The risk of contracting the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus and getting a severe form of COVID-19 does not depend on the blood type. This conclusion, after analyzing a voluminous database, came to the scientists of the Center for Health Security named after. Hopkins in the USA, study published in JAMA.

Previously, some reports suggested that people with blood group II (A) were allegedly more susceptible to COVID-19, and with the first (O) - less, but there was little clear information on this..

The study (adjusted for age, sex and Rh factor) analyzed data from 107 796 people (mean age 42 years; 76.

9% women).

From March 3 to November 2, 2020, they passed PCR tests in a network of 24 hospitals and 215 Intermountain Healthcare clinics in Utah, Idaho and Nevada.. 11,468 patients tested positive for coronavirus.

It found that blood type "

Similarly, types B and AB (groups III and IV) are not associated with worse outcomes than type O (group I), the authors of the analysis emphasized..

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Evgeny Pilipenko LIGABusinessInform.