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Every few weeks, it seems that there is another title connecting your blood group to coronavirus and this week is no different. "A team of scientists conducting a genetic analysis of coronavirus patients found that the presence of a certain type of blood can affect the risk you have to develop the disease, according to a study Wednesday", "reportsFox News. "The study, which appeared in theNew England Journal of Medicine, compared genes of thousands of European patients and foundPeople with type A blood were more likely to go down with a serious illness. Those with type o blood were less likely."

"Research comes after a similar study on China published in March revealed that those who have type o blood can be more resistant to SAR-COV-2-the virus that causes Covid-19-while With the type A blood could be more at risk "continues the website. "Most of us expected because it was a very gross study," Dr. Parameswar Hari, a blood specialist of the Wisconsin Medical College, "saidReport from China. Following the new study, he said "Now I believe it," add "this could be very important." "

Echoes a study 23andm

Their conclusions also echo a genetic study of 23andy, released earlier this month. "The preliminary data of the current genetic study of 23anda of COVID-19 seem to lend more evidence to the importance of the person's blood type determined by the ABO gene - in differences in sensitivity to the virus", revealed the company in ablog.

According to their data, those that have blood type are between 9 and 18% less likely than individuals with other types of blood for positive tested for COVID-19.

Nevertheless, scientists urge caution

"Other scientists have urged caution," reportsCBS News. "Proof of a blood type role is" provisional "... it is not enough for a signal to be sure," said Dr. Eric Topol, head of the Scripps Research Translation Institute in San Diego . The study involving scientists in Italy, Spain, Denmark, Germany and other countries, compared with about 2,000 patients with severe CIVID-19 to several thousand people who were in good health or who had only light symptoms or not. The researchers have set variations of six genes to the probability of serious illness, including some could play a role in the way vulnerable people are the virus. They also knot blood groups at a possible risk. "

"The type of blood has also been appointed to susceptibility to certain other infectious diseases, including cholera, E. coli recurrent urinary tract infections and a bug called H. pylori that can cause ulcers and cancer of the stomach , said Dr. David Valle, director of the Johns Hopkins University Institute of Genetic Medicine "continues the site." At the end of the line: "It's a provocative study. It's in my opinion, it's worth it The sentence to publish and go out there ", but he needs verification at more patients," said Valle. "

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