HealthDay Reporter
MONDAY, Could 3, 2021 (HealthDay Information) — Sure blood varieties might improve an individual’s danger of various well being issues, a brand new examine suggests.
The analysis confirms some earlier findings and divulges new hyperlinks between blood varieties and ailments, based on the authors of the examine revealed April 27 within the journal eLife.
“There’s nonetheless little or no info accessible about whether or not folks with RhD-positive or RhD-negative blood teams could also be vulnerable to sure ailments, or what number of extra ailments could also be affected by blood kind or group,” mentioned first writer Torsten Dahlén, a doctoral scholar at Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
To assist fill that hole, the researchers investigated the hyperlink between blood varieties, RhD standing and greater than 1,000 ailments. (An individual who’s RhD optimistic has a protein known as the D antigen on their crimson blood cells; RhD detrimental means the protein is absent.)
The evaluation of well being information from greater than 5 million folks in Sweden recognized 49 ailments linked to blood varieties, and one related to the RhD group.
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The findings confirmed that folks with kind A blood have been extra more likely to have blood clots; these with kind O blood have been extra more likely to have a bleeding dysfunction; and ladies with kind O blood have been extra more likely to develop pregnancy-induced hypertension (“hypertension“).
The investigators additionally discovered a brand new hyperlink between kind B blood and a decrease danger of kidney stones, and famous that girls who’re RhD-positive usually tend to develop pregnancy-induced hypertension.
Extra analysis is required to verify these findings and to study extra in regards to the hyperlinks between blood kind and illness dangers, based on the examine authors.
“Our findings spotlight new and attention-grabbing relationships between circumstances corresponding to kidney stones and pregnancy-induced hypertension and blood kind or group,” mentioned senior writer Gustaf Edgren, affiliate professor of epidemiology on the Karolinska Institute.
“They lay the groundwork for future research to establish the mechanisms behind illness improvement, or for investigating new methods to establish and deal with people with sure circumstances,” Edgren added in a journal information launch.
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Extra info
The American Crimson Cross has extra on blood types.
SOURCE: eLife, information launch, April 27, 2021
