Correlation between ABO Blood Group Phenotype and the Risk of COVID-19 Infection and Severity of Disease in a Saudi Arabian Cohort.
Dunia JawdatAli H HajeerSalam MassadehNora AljawiniMalak S AbedalthagafiManal AlaameryPublished in: Journal of epidemiology and global health (2022)
Our findings provide evidence that blood group phenotype B is a risk for COVID-19 disease while blood group phenotype O is protective from COVID-19 infection. However, further studies are necessary to validate these associations in a larger sample size and among individuals of different ethnic groups.
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