Relationship between the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility

Jiao Zhao; Yan Yang; Han-Ping Huang; Dong Li; Dong-Feng Gu; Xiang-Feng Lu; Zheng Zhang; Lei Liu; Ting Liu; Yu-Kun Liu; Yun-Jiao He; Bin Sun; Mei-Lan Wei; Guang-Yu Yang; Xinghuan Wang; Li Zhang; Xiao-Yang Zhou; Ming-Zhao Xing; Peng George Wang

The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not peer-reviewed) is the . https://doi.org/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096 doi: medRxiv preprint distribution of 3,694 normal people in Wuhan area as control to compare with different age and sex groups. When all patients from Jinyintan Hospital and Renmin Hospital in Wuhan city were combined (1,888 patients in total) and grouped into three age groups (<40, 41-59, >60 years old), the ABO blood group distribution was similar among the three age groups (Table S1 ). The ABO blood group distribution was also similar between male and female patients with COVID-19 (Table S1 ). These results are consistent with the fact that the distribution of ABO blood groups is known to have no sex and age predilections. For example, by analyzing the blood type of more than ninety thousands normal people, it was found that the percentage of A, B, AB and O blood types were essentially the same among different age groups and among different sexes. 7