This type of blood can make you less vulnerable to COVID
Your type of blood can make you more or less subject to serious coronavirus infection.
At the beginning of the pandemic, the researcher identified that some factors make some people more subject to serious COVID-19 infections than others. Age, gender, pre-existing health conditions and skin color can increase your vulnerability to the virus, which will allow you to undergo severe infection and increase your death chances. Interestingly, the type of blood has also been linked to Vulnerability of COVID and two new studies continue to confirm that people with one type of blood are less likely to become seriously ill than others. Read on and ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
What kind of blood makes you less vulnerable to Covid?
Two studies published on Wednesday, both in the newspaperBlood, found a link defined between the blood type and the susceptibility to the virus. However, nor fully deals with the implication it has for patients.
The first study, conducted by Danish researchers, examined 473,654 people who were tested for COVID-19. Although the type o blood is about 41.7% of the population, only 38.4% of the cohort with it tested positive for the virus.
In the other study, researchers in Canada found that in 95 critically ill patients with COVID-19, only 61% of people with blood ventilation O or B requiring a required ventilation, compared to 84% or those with O or O or B. They also noted that those with type A or AB blood was in the ICU longer - about 13.5 days - compared to group O or B which was only nine-day average.
"As a clinician ... It's at the back of my mind when I look at patients and stratify them. But in terms of definitive marker, we need repeated discoveries in many jurisdictions that show the same thing "Dr. Mypinder Sekhon said, an intensive care doctor at the Vancouver General Hospital and author of the Canadian Study," saysCnn.
"I do not think it replaces other risk factors for gravity like age and co-morbes, etc., added Sekhon.
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Your type of blood does not give you immunity
Sekhon also recalls that the blood type is not a death penalty, nor you have immunity to the virus. "If you are a blood group A, you do not need to start panicking. And if you are from the blood group O, you are not free to go to the pubs and bars."
Dr. Torben BARINGTON, the main author of Denmark Paper and a clinical professor at the Odense University Hospital and the University of South Denmark, adds that it is not clear why those who type of blood are less impacted. "We do not know if it is a kind of protection of group O, or if it is a kind of vulnerability in the other blood groups," he said. "I think that has a scientific interest, and when we discover what the mechanism is, perhaps we are able to use that proactively with regard to treatment."
Sekhon suggests that the reasoning behind that could have done with blood coagulation - for example, people with the type of blood have less tendency to key clotting. There may also be a genetic explanation or do with blood group antigens.
These two studies align the conclusions of a June study published inNew England Journal of Medicinein June. And to cross this pandemic with your healthiest, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.
