Correlation between Blood Group, Sex Prevalence and Residency with COVID19 Positive Cases in Wasit Province, Iraq

ABSTRACT

Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) is one of the updated challenges facing the whole world. To identify the more blood group that positive to COVID19 in male or female. A cross-sectional study was conducted for positively confirmed 265 patients with COVID19 positive in Wasit province at AL-Zahraa Teaching Hospital from the period of March 13th till April 20th. All of them full a question-naire regarded by risk factors and other comorbidities. Data were analyzed by SPSS version 23 using fre-quency tables and percentage. For numerical data, the median, and interquartile range (IQR) were used. Differences between categorical groups were performed by fissure exact test. In this study, the median age of the patients was 43 years old and interquartile range 25-56 years. Majority of the patients were female 60% and 51% of them were from the same region (wasite). The dominant blood group among patients was (O) 40%. The highest percentage of comorbidities among patients was hypertension 40%, and the most presenting symptoms were cough and fever. About 51% of patients were with mild symptoms. Diabetes, coronary heart diseases, and chronic renal diseases were significantly related to disease severity (P-value=0.02, 0.001, 0.01 respectively.Copyright © 2023, Colegio de Farmaceuticos de la Provincia de Buenos Aires. All rights reserved.