Abstract

Blood typing was performed using routine clinical procedures at the Clinical Immunology and Transfusion Medicine at the University Hospital in Uppsala. SEE PDF] Although the present study does not investigate the mechanism behind the association, one potential mechanism that may be involved in the increased risk linked to blood type antigen A is that it contains a galactose as end group saccharide. [...]we show that blood type A or AB is associated with an increased risk of requiring critical care or dying of COVID-19 in the Swedish population.

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Title
Blood type A associates with critical COVID-19 and death in a Swedish cohort
Author
Hultström, Michael  VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Persson, Barbro; Eriksson, Oskar; Lipcsey, Miklos; Frithiof, Robert; Nilsson, Bo
Pages
1-2
Section
Research Letter
Publication year
2020
Publication date
2020
Publisher
BioMed Central
ISSN
13648535
e-ISSN
1366609X
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1186/s13054-020-03223-8
ProQuest document ID
2435081400
Copyright
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