The fact that those who lack the blood group antigen A have anti-A antibody, and those who lack B have anti-B (Landsteiner, 1900, 1901), leads in a number of cases to an incompatibility between maternal serum and foetal antigens inherited from the father. Such serologically incompatible pregnancies have been thought to be a possible cause of various morbid conditions in foetus or mother (e.g., ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the distribution of ABO blood groups in women with ovarian cancer differs from that in the general population in a large, defined English region. DESIGN Analysis of record abstracts of hospital care held in the Oxford record linkage study supplemented with data from the Oxford cancer registry. SETTING Oxford Regional Health Authority area. SUBJECTS A total o...

The importance of Ludwik Hirszfeld's contributions to our knowledge of the ABO blood group system has been affirmed in various ways: by Karl Landsteiner (1931) in his Nobel Address, by Hirszfeld's election to the Presidency of the Blood Group Section of the Second International Congress of Blood Transfusion (Paris, 1937), and by the naming in his memory of the Hirszfeld Microbiological Institut...

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 ...

The incidence of Achilles tendon rupture has significantly increased over the last 20 years (Moller, 1996; Young and Maffulli, 2007), achieving, within the tendon diseases, an incidence between 6 and 18% (Rees et al., 2006; Mazzone and McCue, 2002; Shepsis et al., 2002). The risk of the Achilles tendon rupture is greater in the male population with a ratio included between 1.7 : 1 and 30 : 1. T...

Levine (1943, 1958a, b, 1959) observed that Rh isoimmunization of Rh-negative women was relatively much morecommon inwomen with ABO-compatible husbands than in women with ABO-incompatible husbands. This observation has implications with regard to the incidence of the ABO blood groups in affected families, and certain of these implications were first noted by Lucia and Hunt (1950a, b) in respect...

Tlhe role of ABO blood groups in differential susceptibility to various diseases lhas lonig been a subject of investigation ani(1 debate(1). The genetic factors involve(l in resistanice against Virus infectionis lhave been reviewed by Allison(2). In the l)ast few years tlhree reports l)y Englislh writers lhave claimed to slhow a hiiglher susceptibility of persons of )loo0( grotup 0 to influenza...

The association between ABO blood groups and certain diseases of the upper intestinal tract, peptic ulcer, gastric carinoma, and pernicious anaemia, is now well established, but this is not true for any of the other associations noted, except perhaps diabetes. The evidence has recently been summarized by Roberts (1957). Of the other associations that have been reported, the one which, if true, ...

Controls.-The controls were drawn from the same population as the patients. The ABO blood group distribution was known for a large series (28,566) of "current" and "resigned" blood donors normally resident in the County Borough of Belfast and these were used as controls. The blood donors' distribution has been used to compute the expected distributions of the patients on the hypothesis that pat...