Hagerup, L. (Glostrup Hospital, 2600 Glostrup, Copenhagen, Denmark), P. F. Hansen and F. Skov. Serum-cholesterol, serum-triglyceride and ABO blood groups in a population of 50-year-old Danish men and women. Am J Epidemiol 95: 99-103, 1971.—During a prevalence study of 50-year-old Danish men and women, one of the aspects examined was the relationship between ABO blood groups and serum-cholestero...

An unexpected finding in a survey of a random sample of men from the Rhondda Fach valley in South Wales suggested an association between blood group A and coal-workers' pneumoconiosis. A further and larger sample of 1,250 miners and ex-miners from the same area, covering the same age range of 35 to 64 years, was chosen at random from the population in order to verify this finding. Each man was ...

BACKGROUND This study aimed at determining the prevalence and associated risk factors for asymptomatic malaria parasitaemia and anemia among blood donors in a private medical laboratory in Benin City, Nigeria. METHODS Venous blood was collected from a total of 247 blood donors. Malaria status, ABO, Rhesus blood groups and hemoglobin concentration of all participants were determined using stan...

Background Few studies have documented the blood group antigens in the population of eastern India. Frequencies of some common alleles and haplotypes were unknown. We describe phenotype, allele, and haplotype frequencies in the state of West Bengal, India. Methods We tested 1,528 blood donors at the Medical College Hospital, Kolkata. The common antigens of the ABO, Rhesus, and Kell blood grou...

Study of the blood group, isoenzyme, and serum protein systems representing polymorphic variants at 23 loci, in a population of 53 multiple sclerosis patients in Orkney, their relatives, and control series, showed that patients were neither morre homozygous nor more inbred than controls. Any possible association of the disorder with the ABO and rhesus blood groups was not directly causal, but ...

The determination of the frequency HDFN found in jaundiced newborns Sudan was goal analysis. In Omdurman maternity inside a Sudanese hospital, 220 mothers and their babies who had jaundice altogether were received hospital-Sudan prospective cross-sectional hospital-based analysis carried out them. addition to ABO Rhesus blood group typing, indirect antiglobulin test (IAT) direct coomb's (DA...

The ABO and Rhesus blood groups were determined in 1257 men with lung cancer; in 802 instances there was sufficient histological material available for the tumour to be classified as differentiated or undifferentiated and for the type of differentiation to be determined; in most of the remaining cases the diagnosis was made on clinical and radiological evidence. The proportions of men with the ...