Evaluating of the association of ABO blood groups, age and sex with chronic hepatitis B virus in Iraqi patients

Abstract

Chronic hepatitis B virus causes many deaths worldwide in statistics every year. There are few studies and publications that show the relationship between different blood groups with chronic hepatitis B and C disease. The aim of the study is to find out the relationship between different host factors for infection from the same virus, as 80 samples were collected from the Digestive Diseases Center in Baghdad for people infected with hepatitis virus and 96 samples from healthy people who do not suffer From any disease from the blood bank during the period between April and August of 2018, and sufficient data were taken from patients related to age and gender, the distribution of eighty Chronic Viral Hepatitis B) blood groups were as follows: Group A, 18 (22.5%), B, 57 (32.5). %), AB, 5 (6.25%), O, 31 (38.75%)). 73 (91.25%) were Rh positive and 7 (8.75%) were Rh negative. In healthy blood donors, 20 (21.8%) were in group A, 31 (32.3%) were in group B, 7 (7.3%) were in group AB, 37 (38.6%) were in group O.87 (90.4) The results showed that most of the patients were males (62.5%), while the percentage of females was 37.5%. During the study, no significant difference was recorded between blood groups with chronic viral hepatitis. The number of infections was clearly increasing with the increase. The association of chronic viral hepatitis infection with blood types needs more numerous studies to obtain more results.