A detailed analysis of over 90,000 patients for close to 2 decades at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that your blood type might affect your risk for stroke.
A detailed analysis of over 90,000 patients for close to 2 decades at Harvard’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital shows that your blood type might affect your risk for stroke. People with AB and women with B were a little more likely to suffer one than people with O blood — the most common type, a study found. The research can’t prove such a link. But it fits with other work tying A, B and AB to more risk of blood clots in the legs and heart attacks. Blood type O also has been tied to an increased risk of bleeding, which implies less chance of clots, the cause of most strokes. Blood type depends on proteins on the surface of red blood cells. A pattern of immune system responses forms early in life based on them. Certain blood types may make red cells more likely to clump together and stick to the lining of blood vessels, setting the stage for a blood clot. The study says that this is nothing to alarm people but can definitely serve as an indicator to the public so that proper care and medical attention is given to high blood pressure condition and also keep a watch on higher cholestrol levels. The study also reiterated the fact that smoking, drinking and too little exercise are bigger and more dangerous things to address as they are definitely going to increase the risk of stroke. This blood type relation with risk of stroke is only in the initial stage of analysis.
(Source:msn.com Heart Health pages)