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#1 caliban

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Posted 19 March 2020 - 06:10 PM


in the context of the curen coronavirus attention, it has been suggested that Blood Type A is more protective than others. 

 

Relationshipbetween the ABO Blood Group and the COVID-19 Susceptibility

PREPRINT- not peer reviewed!

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Given how easy it should be to investigate the topics with modern big data tools, it is surprising how little attention has been paid to blood type oan longevity - but there have been a few studies. Those  suggest that Type O is 'best' for longevity, and that type A is actually not that prevalent in the oldest.

 

Mortalityand cancer in relation to ABO blood group phenotypes in the Golestan Cohort Study

Arash Etemadi, Farin Kamangar, Farhad Islami, Hossein Poustchi, Akram Pourshams, Paul Brennan, Paolo Boffetta, Reza Malekzadeh, Sanford M Dawsey, Christian C Abnet & Ashkan Emadi
BMC Medicine volume 13, Article number: 8 (2015)


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Genetic determinants of extreme longevity: the role of ABO blood group

Geneticdeterminants of extreme longevity: the role of ABO blood group

Massimo Franchini; Carlo Mengoli; Carlo Bonfanti; Chiara Rossi; Giuseppe Lippi

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