The Relationship of Blood Groups and an Increased Risk of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (A Subject Review)

Objective: Although human blood consists of the same basic parts (red blood cells, white blood cells, platelets, and plasma), there are a large variety of blood groups and types, each with its own different characteristics. The aim of this study to search the correlation between different types of blood groups and increase risk factor for type 2 diabetic mellitus disease. Methods: Blood is made up of several components, and all of these can be utilized to management a lot of different illness. What makes a blood type different is the combination of protein molecules called antigens and antibodies. A person's blood type is also considered to be inherited from the parents' genes. Diabetic mellitus type 2 is related with a type of a chronic illness that effect the trend of the cells in the body for receive glucose or the amount of insulin which synthesize in the pancreas, thus leads to an abnormal decrease or increase in the scale of glucose in the blood. Results: Blood type O had a low risk of diabetes for women with type A, and same for women with type A. Group AB, and low persent of type B, compared with blood group O, have poor chances of developing diabetes. Conclusions: The effect of blood types should be investigated in future clinical and epidemiological studies on diabetes, also there is a need for more research on the pathophysiological mechanism to explain why diabetes has people of group O have a low risk of developing type 2 diabetes.