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Not as dramatic difference as the title suggests... Pulling numbers from the article. 3694 Control (Wuhan area) A: 1188 (32.16%) B: 920 (24.90%) AB: 336 (9.

Not as dramatic difference as the title suggests... Pulling numbers from the article. 3694 Control (Wuhan area) A: 1188 (32.16%) B: 920 (24.90%) AB: 336 (9.10%) O: 1250 (33.84%) COVID-19 1888 patients A: 715 (37.87%) B: 494 (26.17%) AB: 193 (10.22%) O: 486 (25.74%) The difference may be related to triaging criteria. E.g. different ethnic groups overrepresented in given hospital.

car 7y ago
I’d be happy to change the title, though it is basically quoted from the article conclusion. Not peer reviewed, but an interesting observation nevertheless. There will be more data soon.
- toptal 7y ago
  Given the fact SARS had a similar profile, this should be a reasonable assumption. I’m not saying it’s at the same standard as being peer reviewed, though it’s more likely than not that the conclusions from this data will remain true based on both the data and the correlation.
- tom_mellior 7y ago
  > I’d be happy to change the title, though it is basically quoted from the article conclusion. For future reference, Hacker News guidelines call for using the article's original title as the title of the submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (the moderators seem to have fixed this for you)
mancerayder 7y ago
Thanks for posting this. Would others agree here that this is a very weak correlation of blood type to Coronavirus severity?
- necovek 7y ago
  I would like a hypothesis tested on individual alleles as I outlined in another comment: it's not that weak correlation if looked at that way, especially since eg. A* groups are present in Caucasian population in ~45% compared to ~35% in Asian population (numbers pulled from another site cited in that other comment of mine).
nicioan 7y ago
Don’t you have to juxtapose that with the abo % in the population? According to Wikipedia(only showing +, avg, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_c...) that’s: O:38.67% A:27.42% B:22.02% AB:5.88% edit: added wikipedia link
- necovek 7y ago
  They did have a control group from the healthy population of Wuhan which had those at... "ABO group in 3694 normal people in Wuhan showed a distribution of 32.16%, 24.90%, 9.10% and 33.84% for A, B, AB and O, respectively"

car 7y ago

I’d be happy to change the title, though it is basically quoted from the article conclusion. Not peer reviewed, but an interesting observation nevertheless. There will be more data soon.

toptal 7y ago
Given the fact SARS had a similar profile, this should be a reasonable assumption. I’m not saying it’s at the same standard as being peer reviewed, though it’s more likely than not that the conclusions from this data will remain true based on both the data and the correlation.
tom_mellior 7y ago
> I’d be happy to change the title, though it is basically quoted from the article conclusion. For future reference, Hacker News guidelines call for using the article's original title as the title of the submission. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html (the moderators seem to have fixed this for you)

mancerayder 7y ago

Thanks for posting this. Would others agree here that this is a very weak correlation of blood type to Coronavirus severity?

necovek 7y ago
I would like a hypothesis tested on individual alleles as I outlined in another comment: it's not that weak correlation if looked at that way, especially since eg. A* groups are present in Caucasian population in ~45% compared to ~35% in Asian population (numbers pulled from another site cited in that other comment of mine).

nicioan 7y ago

Don’t you have to juxtapose that with the abo % in the population? According to Wikipedia(only showing +, avg, https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_country https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_type_distribution_by_c...) that’s: O:38.67% A:27.42% B:22.02% AB:5.88% edit: added wikipedia link

necovek 7y ago
They did have a control group from the healthy population of Wuhan which had those at... "ABO group in 3694 normal people in Wuhan showed a distribution of 32.16%, 24.90%, 9.10% and 33.84% for A, B, AB and O, respectively"