ABO blood groups in gastric bleeding.

ABO blood groups in gastric bleeding.

EDITORIAL SYNOPSIS This paper confirms previous studies showing the increased risk of bleeding associated with blood group 0. There is an indication that this may also be true for acute perforation and indeed the relationship may be with the severity of the ulcer disease. In a previous paper (Horwich and Evans, 1966) a relationship was shown between the loss of gastric mucosal cells in 160 volu...

Abo Blood Groups and Gastric Ulcer.

The finding of Aird, Bentall, Mehigan, and Roberts (1954) that there was a strong association between blood group 0 and gastric ulcer has been followed by a diversity of results. Many authors, reviewed by Beasley (I960), support the findings, but others found no significant differences between controls and patients with gastric ulcer. The present series adds further support for the association ...

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...