Country-level factors dynamics and ABO/Rh blood groups contribution to COVID-19 mortality

© 2021. The Author(s)..

The identification of factors associated to COVID-19 mortality is important to design effective containment measures and safeguard at-risk categories. In the last year, several investigations have tried to ascertain key features to predict the COVID-19 mortality tolls in relation to country-specific dynamics and population structure. Most studies focused on the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic observed in the first half of 2020. Numerous studies have reported significant associations between COVID-19 mortality and relevant variables, for instance obesity, healthcare system indicators such as hospital beds density, and bacillus Calmette-Guerin immunization. In this work, we investigated the role of ABO/Rh blood groups at three different stages of the pandemic while accounting for demographic, economic, and health system related confounding factors. Using a machine learning approach, we found that the "B+" blood group frequency is an important factor at all stages of the pandemic, confirming previous findings that blood groups are linked to COVID-19 severity and fatal outcome.

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Scientific reports - 11(2021), 1 vom: 31. Dez., Seite 24527

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Monaco, Alfonso [VerfasserIn]
Pantaleo, Ester [VerfasserIn]
Amoroso, Nicola [VerfasserIn]
Bellantuono, Loredana [VerfasserIn]
Stella, Alessandro [VerfasserIn]
Bellotti, Roberto [VerfasserIn]

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ABO Blood-Group System
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Date Completed 17.01.2022

Date Revised 08.11.2023

published: Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1038/s41598-021-04162-2

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM335083250