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Posted on 09/01/2022 8:57:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A person's blood type may be linked to their risk of having an early stroke, according to a new meta-analysis. The meta-analysis included all available data from genetic studies focusing on ischemic strokes, which are caused by a blockage of blood flow to the brain, occurring in younger adults under age 60.
Steven J. Kittner, MD, MPH and his colleagues conducted the study by performing a meta-analysis of 48 studies on genetics and ischemic stroke that included 17,000 stroke patients and nearly 600,000 healthy controls who never had experienced a stroke. They then looked across all collected chromosomes to identify genetic variants associated with a stroke and found a link between early-onset stroke—occurring before age 60—and the area of the chromosome that includes the gene that determines whether a blood type is A, AB, B, or O.
The study found that people with early stroke were more likely to have blood type A and less likely to have blood type O (the most common blood type)—compared to people with late stroke and people who never had a stroke. Both early and late stroke were also more likely to have blood type B compared to controls. After adjusting for sex and other factors, researchers found those who had blood type A had an 16 percent higher risk of having an early stroke than people with other blood types. Those who had blood type O had a 12 percent lower risk of having a stroke than people with other blood types.
The researchers emphasized that the increased risk was very modest.
Previous studies suggest that those with an A blood type have a slightly higher risk of developing blood clots in the legs known as deep vein thrombosis.
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
The odds of stroke appear to be something under 400 strokes per 100,000 people, per year, so by age 60, a bit under 24,000 out of 100,000 have had strokes, it would seem (using German data I quickly referenced).
Whew.
I’ll have to wait to have a late one.
Growing up in the sixties, for some reason it was important to know your blood type…mine is O+..
We had to learn it in elementary school. I can’t remember it...
It is not as if I can change my blood type...
Need to change my diet pronto.
They said clean underwear too.
I’m not sure I ever knew mine until they stamped it on my dog tags.
Early 50s NYC public grammar school we were given a metal dog tag with name and blood type...maybe religion also, can’t remember.
I think I learned that at Mama’s knee...
The girls got bracelets.
That doesn’t sound right. 1/4 of the population has. it had a stoke by age 60
I used to hear a lot about athletes planning their meals in accordance with their blood types.
My blood type is on my dog tags. Looks like I’m good to go.
Hmmm. I’m suspicious. Type A is most commonly associated with caucacian Northern European. Are they trying to cover for the Fauci ouchie?
A while back (long before the Wu Flu), I took one of those 23 and me tests, a company that has gone extremely woke. Recently they are furiously trying to genetically explain cases of young people dropping dead at high rates from stokes, clots and heart attacks that DOESN’T point to the jab.
They have people quoted as saying “we knew it couldn’t be from C19, as he was completely vaxxed and boostered...”
In my 70’s and type A so I’m good to go.
True, strokes occur much more often as one gets older, but I took the number per 100,000 as an average for the calculation.
One in four adults worldwide will have a stroke. Some of those will have more than one in their lifetimes.
https://www.world-stroke.org/world-stroke-day-campaign/why-stroke-matters/learn-about-stroke
I could see it being Type A Personality...
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