Letter: Blood type A associates with critical COVID-19 and death in a Swedish cohort
Critical Care volume 24, Article number: 496 (2020)
Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is primarily associated
with respiratory failure, but both renal and circulatory failure is common in
patients that require critical care or die of the disease [1].
A recently published GWAS showed a strong association between severe COVID-19
and the ABO blood group locus in a cohort from Italy and Spain, with a higher
risk for patients with blood group A [2].
This is consistent with data on susceptibility to COVID-19 being associated
with blood group in Chinese [3].
Although the GWAS dataset did not include data on mortality, there is a
preliminary report in an American cohort that blood group A is associated with
both severity of COVID-19 and death [4]…
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