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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Blood Group

HPT & Blood Group

4 comments:

  1. "It is concluded that, although an inherited factor in essential hypertension is accepted, there is no association with ABO inheritance."

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1980378/

    (1 negative point)

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  2. "Tendency for hypertension may be more in blood group B and there could be negative correlation of pre-hypertension in individuals with blood group A"

    http://www.cjmed.net/html/2010252_468.html?PHPSESSID=631454187e6f8bbd48dd4c20ab49e516

    (not so strong article)

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  3. what does 'not so strong' means? not strong enough for blood group to be a risk factor or the article is not good?

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  4. Association of Blood Groups with Essential and
    Secondary Hypertension

    http://hyper.ahajournals.org/cgi/reprint/1/5/493.pdf

    Extracts

    "The present investigation failed to
    demonstrate any association of blood group O with increased blood pressure as reflected in the occurrence of essential hypertension, nor were there seen quantitative differences in blood pressure among groups."

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