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Jakarta, CNBC Indonesia – It turns out that blood type has an important role related to exposure and the corona virus or Covid-19. There has been a lot of research done showing that blood type can influence the level of susceptibility to Covid-19 infection.
However, it must be remembered that this does not mean that people with certain blood types can be more dangerous or vice versa.
NBC wrote there are two studies with citation Blood advances, a publication of the American Society of Hematology. The first study carried out by researchers in Denmark re-examined the data of 473,654 people who were tested for Covid-19 from February to July. Most of the results were negative, with only 7,422 tests coming back positive.
The research researchers found that blood type was a prominent differentiating factor between the two groups.
“Blood type O was significantly associated with lower susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2 infection,” the study said, as quoted on Friday (10/16/2020).
Up to 38.4% of all positive patients were people with blood type O. While 44.4% of positive patients were people with blood type A.
This result means that people with blood type O are less likely to be infected with the corona virus that causes Covid-19. However, this finding is limited because, among those analyzed, the availability of information on blood group was only 62%.
Therefore, it is also important to note that people with blood type O can also be infected.
“This study suggests that if you have type O, you have a slightly lower risk. But this reduction is small,” said Dr. Roy Silverstein, president of medicine at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
Silverstein, who is also the past president of the American Society of Hematology, added that reducing vulnerability factors based on blood type is not the same as 0 percent risk. Furthermore, the findings of this new study will not change the way doctors treat Covid-19 patients.
“They will not differentiate the treatment between someone who comes to the hospital with blood type O and patients whose blood type is type A. This difference is not too great,” he continued.
However, the second study, on a smaller scale, seems to support the findings of the first study. In this study, experts from Canada analyzed data from 95 Covid-19 patients in Vancouver between February and April. His condition was serious enough to be treated in an intensive care unit.
The study found that patients with type A or AB blood require special equipment and longer ICU care. They occupy 84 percent of all patients with Covid-19.
“A higher proportion of Covid-19 patients were blood group A or AB, required mechanical ventilation and had a longer stay in the ICU compared to patients with blood type O or B,” the researchers wrote.
Meanwhile, people with blood type O or B took 16 percent of all patients.
Types A and AB, according to studies, are more likely to need a type of dialysis that helps the kidneys filter the blood without putting too much pressure on the heart.
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