Blood Sort Does not Have an effect on Your COVID Danger

MONDAY, April 5, 2021 (HealthDay Information) — A or B, AB or O, it would not matter — your blood sort has nothing to do together with your danger of contracting extreme COVID-19, a brand new examine concludes.

Early within the pandemic, some experiences urged folks with A-type blood had been extra inclined to COVID, whereas these with O-type blood had been much less so.

However a evaluation of practically 108,000 sufferers in a three-state well being community has discovered no hyperlink in any respect between blood sort and COVID danger.

“For the reason that starting of this pandemic, there have been associations postulated between blood sort and illness susceptibility,” mentioned Dr. Amesh Adalja, a senior scholar with the Johns Hopkins Heart for Well being Safety.

“From this massive examine, it seems that there isn’t a affiliation between blood sort and susceptibility or severity, and different explanations had been seemingly current,” added Adalja, who had no position within the examine.

An early report from China urged that blood sort would possibly affect COVID danger. Subsequent research from Italy and Spain backed that up, researchers mentioned in background notes.

Nevertheless, different research out of Denmark and america supplied blended and conflicting outcomes.

To clear issues up, researchers led by Dr. Jeffrey Anderson, from Intermountain Medical Heart Coronary heart Institute in Murray, Utah, analyzed information from tens of 1000’s of sufferers with Intermountain Healthcare, a nonprofit well being system of 24 hospitals and 215 clinics in Utah, Idaho and Nevada.

Of these within the evaluation, practically 11,500 examined optimistic for coronavirus, whereas the remaining examined unfavorable.

Blood sort didn’t play a major position in anybody’s danger of contracting COVID, the researchers reported April 5 in JAMA Community Open.

“I’ve all the time mentioned this entire factor with the blood sorts is way hoopla about nothing,” mentioned Dr. Aaron Glatt, chairman of the division of drugs and hospital epidemiologist at Mount Sinai South Nassau in Oceanside, N.Y. “It was by no means a major sufficient factor that folks must be terrified if they’ve one type of blood sort or reassured if they’ve one other blood sort. It by no means made any sensible distinction.”