No evidence for an association between ABO blood group and overall ischemic stroke or any of the major etiologic subtypes
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2012

Introduction: The ABO blood group system is encoded by one gene, ABO. Previous studies have reported an association between blood group non-O (i.e. phenotype A, B or AB) and myocardial infarction. Studies on stroke and ABO are, however, more scarce. Therefore, we aimed to investigate whether ABO phenotype or genotype is associated with ischemic stroke and/or etiologic subtypes of ischemic stroke. Materials and methods: The study was performed in the Sahlgrenska Academy Study on Ischemic Stroke (SAHLSIS), which comprises 600 patients with ischemic stroke before the age of 70 years, and 600 matched controls. Patients were classified according to the TOAST criteria. Results: There was no significant association between ABO phenotype (blood group O vs. non-O) and overall ischemic stroke (multivariable odds ratio of 0.9, 95% confidence interval 0.7-1.2). This was also true for blood group O vs. A and O vs. B. Furthermore, no association between ABO genotypes and ischemic stroke was detected. The ischemic stroke subtype analysis was confined to large-vessel disease, small-vessel disease, cardioembolic stroke and cryptogenic stroke. In this analysis, there was no significant association between any ischemic stroke subtype and ABO phenotype or genotype. Conclusions: The findings in this study suggest that ABO phenotype or genotype does not have a major impact in the pathophysiology of ischemic stroke or any of the ischemic stroke subtypes.

risk

Ischemic stroke

TOAST subtype

cerebral-hemorrhage

ABO blood group

genotype

infarction

disease

Författare

Ellen Hanson

Göteborgs universitet

Sara Karlsson

Göteborgs universitet

Katarina Jood

Göteborgs universitet

Staffan Nilsson

Göteborgs universitet

Chalmers, Matematiska vetenskaper, Matematisk statistik

Christian Blomstrand

Göteborgs universitet

Christina Jern

Göteborgs universitet

Thrombosis Research

0049-3848 (ISSN) 18792472 (eISSN)

Vol. 130 3 339-342

Ämneskategorier

Neurologi

DOI

10.1016/j.thromres.2012.03.016

PubMed

22482829

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