Experts spoke about the impact of blood group on the course COVID-19

The study was the analysis of the history of the disease in more than 1 200 infected with the coronavirus.

In the study, specialists at the Massachusetts General hospital it was established that the severity of coronavirus infection does not depend on the blood group of the patient.

This conclusion is made after analyzing the medical history, more than than 1 in 200 infected people, which showed that no statistical relationship of blood groups with the risk of dying from COVID-19 or with the need to use reagents no.

In addition, found a connection between blood groups and inflammatory markers, which suggests that the immune system is by not overreacting to COVID-19 — high and low levels of inflammatory signals as well as weak and severe symptoms equally found infected with different blood groups.

However, the researchers suggested that the relationship between blood group and cov still exists. In particular, people with blood group b (III) and AB (IV) with the positive RH factor is often a new infection, so it is likely that blood group affects the ability of infection, according to “Science and life”.

According to the latest data, in Russia diagnosed 789 190 cases of infection with coronavirus, of which 572 053 recovered.