{"title":"The Relationship Between ABO and Rh Blood Groups and COVID19 Confirmed Patients, an Observational Study","authors":"Y. Yahya","doi":"10.33552/gjpnc.2020.02.000542","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This is an observational study conducted on the patients admitted to Expo Field hospital Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) confirmed infection between March and May 2020. This disease caused by SRAS-CoV-2 virus discovered for the first time in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020. We looked to the ABO and Rh blood groups distribution in 1014 COVID-19 confirmed patients. Our results showed that blood group O was the most common in these patients compared to the least common which is the ABO blood group. This is result goes with the findings of a few other studies that observed the association between the ABO blood type and COVID-19. However, this study has many limitations such as the non-availability of blood grouping in a considerable number of patients. In addition, there is no comparison with the data of normal blood group distribution of non-COVID-19 patients.","PeriodicalId":87261,"journal":{"name":"Global journal of pediatrics & neonatal care","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Global journal of pediatrics & neonatal care","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.33552/gjpnc.2020.02.000542","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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This is an observational study conducted on the patients admitted to Expo Field hospital Sharjah, United Arab Emirates (UAE) with the novel coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) confirmed infection between March and May 2020. This disease caused by SRAS-CoV-2 virus discovered for the first time in Wuhan, China, in December 2019 and declared as a pandemic by World Health Organization (WHO) in 2020. We looked to the ABO and Rh blood groups distribution in 1014 COVID-19 confirmed patients. Our results showed that blood group O was the most common in these patients compared to the least common which is the ABO blood group. This is result goes with the findings of a few other studies that observed the association between the ABO blood type and COVID-19. However, this study has many limitations such as the non-availability of blood grouping in a considerable number of patients. In addition, there is no comparison with the data of normal blood group distribution of non-COVID-19 patients.