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- Title
Country-level factors dynamics and ABO/Rh blood groups contribution to COVID-19 mortality.
- Authors
Monaco, Alfonso; Pantaleo, Ester; Amoroso, Nicola; Bellantuono, Loredana; Stella, Alessandro; Bellotti, Roberto
- Abstract
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.
- Subjects
COVID-19; ABO blood group system; COVID-19 pandemic; BLOOD groups; HOSPITAL beds; MORTALITY; POPULATION dynamics
- Publication
Scientific Reports, 2021, Vol 11, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2045-2322
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41598-021-04162-2