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COVID‐19 and the ABO blood group in pregnancy: A tale of two multiethnic cities

2020; Wiley; Volume: 43; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/ijlh.13355

1751-553X

Irshad Ahmed, Lauren M. Quinn, Bee K. Tan,

Hemoglobinopathies and Related Disorders

International Journal of Laboratory HematologyVolume 43, Issue 1 p. e45-e47 LETTER TO THE EDITOR COVID-19 and the ABO blood group in pregnancy: A tale of two multiethnic cities Irshad Ahmed, Irshad Ahmed Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UKSearch for more papers by this authorLauren Quinn, Lauren Quinn Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UKSearch for more papers by this authorBee K. Tan, Corresponding Author Bee K. Tan [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-5836-0613 Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence Bee K. Tan, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author Irshad Ahmed, Irshad Ahmed Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UKSearch for more papers by this authorLauren Quinn, Lauren Quinn Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UKSearch for more papers by this authorBee K. Tan, Corresponding Author Bee K. Tan [email protected] orcid.org/0000-0001-5836-0613 Birmingham Heartlands Hospital, University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust, Birmingham, UK Leicester Royal Infirmary, University Hospitals Leicester NHS Trust, Leicester, UK Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, UK Correspondence Bee K. Tan, Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester LE1 7RH, UK. Email: [email protected]Search for more papers by this author First published: 30 September 2020 https://doi.org/10.1111/ijlh.13355Citations: 11 Lauren Quinn and Bee K. Tan are joint senior authors. Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onEmailFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat No abstract is available for this article. REFERENCES 1Price LC, McCabe C, Garfield B, Wort SJ. Thrombosis and COVID-19 pneumonia: the clot thickens!. Eur Respir J. 2020; 56:2001608. 10.1183/13993003.01608-2020 CASPubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar 2Docherty AB, Harrison EM, Green CA, et al. Features of 20 133 UK patients in hospital with covid-19 using the ISARIC WHO Clinical Characterisation Protocol: prospective observational cohort study. BMJ. 2020; 369: m1985. 10.1136/bmj.m1985 PubMedGoogle Scholar 3Townsend MJ, Kyle TK, Stanford FC. Outcomes of COVID-19: disparities in obesity and by ethnicity/race. Int J Obes (Lond). 2020; 44(9): 1807-1809. 10.1038/s41366-020-0635-2 CASPubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar 4Ahmed I, Azhar A, Eltaweel N, Tan BK. First COVID-19 maternal mortality in the UK associated with thrombotic complications. Br J Haematol. 2020; 190(1): e37-e38. 10.1111/bjh.16849 CASPubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar 5Groot HE, Villegas Sierra LE, Said MA, Lipsic E, Karper JC, van der Harst P. Genetically determined ABO blood group and its associations with health and disease. Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol. 2020; 40(3): 830-838. 10.1161/ATVBAHA.119.313658 CASPubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar 6Cheng Y, Cheng G, Chui CH, et al. ABO blood group and susceptibility to severe acute respiratory syndrome. JAMA. 2005; 293(12): 1450-1451. CASPubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar 7Sano R, Nakajima T, Takahashi Y, et al. Epithelial expression of human ABO blood group genes is dependent upon a downstream regulatory element functioning through an epithelial cell-specific transcription factor, Elf5. J Biol Chem. 2016; 291(43): 22594-22606. 10.1074/jbc.M116.730655 CASPubMedWeb of Science®Google Scholar Citing Literature Volume43, Issue1February 2021Pages e45-e47 ReferencesRelatedInformation