Blood Types in Children With COVID-19

Mersin Training and Research Hospital

Status: Unknown

Conditions: COVID-19 Infection

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT04682912

MersinTRH

Details and patient eligibility

About

It is speculated that in adult patients with COVID-19 blood type A is associated with the worst outcome, while blood type O is associated with mild symptoms.To our knowledge, there has been no such a study investigated ABO and Rhesus (Rh) blood group types in children with COVID-19 infection yet. Therefore, the study aimed to examine if such a correlation exists in children infected with COVID-19.

Enrollment: 2,000 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 month to 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• The study period consisted between March 2020 and December 2020
• Children with a documented positive COVID-19 nasal smear real-time reverse-transcriptase polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assay were included.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients who had a past medical history of any chronic illness (related to respiratory, cardiology, immunology, neurology, metabolic, etc) were excluded.