A lot of scientific news indicates that blood type owners are more likely to be infected with viruses, from your scientific point of view and specialization. Do you think that there is a relationship between the blood group and the strength of the immune system in humans?
Please kindly follow these papers:
Blood Type Biochemistry and Human Disease,
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2017 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as:
Wiley Interdiscip Rev Syst Biol Med. 2016 Nov; 8(6): 517–535. Published online 2016 Sep 7. doi: 10.1002/wsbm.1355
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ABO system of blood groups in people and their resistance to certain infectious diseases (prognosis).
Article ABO system of blood groups in people and their resistance to...
https://www.researchgate.net/post/Does_the_blood_group_have_a_role_in_disease_resistance
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Article Blood groups: In Health and Diseases
Chapter Blood Group Antigens as Receptors for Pathogens
Article Genetic of the ABO blood system and its link with the immune system
People with blood group A have a significantly higher risk for acquiring COVID-19 compared with non-A blood groups, whereas blood group O has a significantly lower risk for the infection compared with non-O blood groups. Please see the link below.
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.11.20031096v1
There is abundant evidence that blood groups play a role in the susceptibility or resistance to various infectious and non-infectious diseases. One of the arguments used to reinforce the role of these molecules is the higher expression of the ABO carbohydrates in secretions and tissues that have contact with the environment such as in the skin and in mucous membranes of respiratory and gastrointestinal tracts. As infectious processes are related to the attachment of microbes to molecules expressed in host cells, probably the ABO (and its associated genetic systems, Secretor and Lewis) carbohydrate antigens evolved to create a polymorphic profile in the mucous membrane. This is important to alter potential receptors of bacteria, viruses, etc.
Therefore, diversity of these antigens can be related to the susceptibility or resistance to infectious diseases and this feature also represents a functional relationship between blood groups and the immune function.
Salam Jassim Hmood
Please see the following
Blood Groups in Infection and Host Susceptibility .
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As most of you know very well there is close relationship between blood and immunity system, so why most of you said that there is no such relation between blood group and disease ?
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