COVID-19 Insights: Blood Groups, Race And Severity of COVID-19
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How does COVID-19 severity changes in people with various blood groups?
Are African Americans at a greater risk of severe COVID-19?
Blood group A is at a significantly higher risk of COVID-19 infection and severity.
Blood group O is at a significantly lower risk of COVID-19 infection and severity.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v2
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v2.full.pdf+html
Blood type O have a lower level of vWF
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2267/
https://journals.lww.com/hemasphere/Fulltext/2017/12000/Knowledge_of_Blood_Group_Decreases_von_Willebrand.3.aspx
https://www.pharmacytimes.com/news/study-vaccine-skepticism-may-be-caused-by-cognitive-or-affective-differences
Blood groups
A blood group has A antigen
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK2267/
Black Americans are dying at a 2.6 times higher rate than white Americans. (NY)
https://www.apmresearchlab.org/covid/deaths-by-race
Chicago Black Americans make 70% of all deaths from coronavirus. While their population is only 29% of the city.
https://www.wbez.org/stories/in-chicago-70-of-covid-19-deaths-are-black/dd3f295f-445e-4e38-b37f-a1503782b507
Black Americans have higher von Willebrand Factor
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11343385
Vitamin D levels are low in Black Americans
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16549493
Adiponectin and hypertension
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3729220/
Reduces adiponectin receptor function in obesity
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5486142/
Reduced adiponectin release in obesity leading to hypertension, atherosclerosis, CKD, metabolic syndromes, COPD, sleep apnea, etc.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4109424/
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