• La Tunisie médicale · Dec 2020

    ABO blood groups and risk of covid-19.

    • Sadok Yalaoui, Radhouane Fakhfakh, Fatma Tritar, Nawel Chaouch, Tahar Mestiri, Mohamed Besbes, and Agnès Hamzaoui.
    • Tunis Med. 2020 Dec 1; 98 (12): 888-891.

    IntroductionCoronavirus pandemic has been the subject of a large number of publications, some of which have shown an increased risk of contracting Covid-19 in carriers of blood group A.AimsIn this study we looked at the profile of blood group phenotype of a series of Tunisian patients with covid-19 admitted to Abderrahman Mami hospital in Ariana .MethodsOur study included 51 Tunisian patients with SARS-CoV-2 infection admitted to Abderrahmane Mami hospital between late march 2020 and early May 2020. The distribution of blood groups in Covid-19 patients was compared with that of a control group of 1506 patients with no Covid-19 infection as well as with the distribution of blood groups in a population of 63375 voluntary blood donors.ResultsOur series, although limited in size, showed a higher prevalence of blood group A among Covid-19 patients, statistically significant compared to ABO blood group distribution among Tunisian blood donors and among a control group of patients without Covid -19.Conclusionthese results are in line with data from the literature, particularly on larger series in China.

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