ABO Blood Groups and Hypertension

Association and Distribution of Hypertension, Obesity and ABO Blood groups in Blood Donors

Abstract Background Hypertension is a major health problem, especially because it has no clear symptoms. It is strongly correlated with modifiable risk factors such as adiposities, age, stress, high salt intake. Overweight and obesity is conveniently determined from BMI and visceral adiposity is determined by waist circumference. ABO blood group is one such factor which needs to be investiga...

ABO blood groups and vitiligo.

ABO blood groups and leprosy.

Leprosy and ABO blood groups.

Cases were selected from the Skin Out-patients Department and Leprosy Clinic of S.S. Hospital, Banaras Hindu University and the Leprosy Clinic at Chowka Ghat, Varanasi. Patients belonging to any other province or country were excluded. Blood was grouped by the slide method described by Stratton and Renton (1958). The control material consisted of data on 2583 recipients of blood at the hospital...

ABO Blood Groups and Disease

AMost geneticists beliezve that genetic factors are inzolv!ed in susceptibility and resistance to many "non-Mendelizing" human diseases. It seems, therefore, reasonable to look for disease associations among genetic polymorphisms, and a great deal of work has already been done with blood groups in this field. Dr. Vogel summarizes his extensive experience with this approach in thefirst annotatio...