Disha Arora*, Ankit Kaushik, D.S. Rawat, A K Mandal Department of Pathology, Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College and Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India Background: ABO blood group shows marked geographical and racial variation. The study of regional ABO phenotype is extremely important for understanding the regional demand of rare blood groups and to tide over the massive demands in case of na...

BACKGROUND Whether the ABO blood group is associated with the survival of patients with laryngeal cancer remains unknown. The purpose of this study was to investigate the association between the ABO blood group and clinicopathologic characteristics of patients with laryngeal cancer and assess whether the ABO blood group was associated with prognosis. METHODS We analyzed the records of 1260 pa...

1. Aird I, Bentall HH, Roberts JA. A relationship between cancer of stomach and the ABO blood groups. Br Med J 1953;1:799-801. 2. Aird I, Bentall HH, Mehigan JA, Roberts JA. The blood groups in relation to peptic ulceration and carcinoma of colon, rectum, breast, and bronchus; an association between the ABO groups and peptic ulceration. Br Med J 1954;2:315-21. 3. Discussion on the ABO blood gro...

Background Comparing the ABO and RhD group of a recipient's current pre-transfusion sample against their historical group is an important means of detecting wrong blood in tube (WBIT) errors. This study investigated the utility of using the donor ABO and RhD group as the historical check for recipients. Methods A single database stores serological information on blood donors, pregnant women, ...

the clinical significance of abo and rhesus blood group systems has been well documented. the objective of this study was to determine the frequency of abo and rhesus blood groups in blood donors in lahore, pakistan, with a view to generate data with multipurpose future practicalities in the field of medicine. blood groups of 3000 blood donors were determined by commercially available standard ...

The ABO blood types related to morphological characteristics of atherosclerosis plaque are not clear. We aimed to evaluate the relationship between ABO blood groups and the coronary plaque characteristic. We retrospectively identified the target lesions in 392 acute coronary syndrome patients who underwent optical coherence tomography examination before stenting. Subjects were divided into diff...

Pancreatic cancer is among the most aggressive types of cancer. It has mortality rates as the seventh most frequent cause of cancer death worldwide. The association between ABO blood group and risk of pancreatic cancer has been known for more than 40 years.Various studies, in detail, although conflicting on many occasions, on large population groups, cohort studies, case-control studies, retros...