How Your Blood Type Can Affect Your Health
Heart Disease
Stomach Cancer
Memory
Pancreatic Cancer
Stress
Malaria
Ulcers
Blood Clots
Life Span
Fertility
Diabetes
Stroke
IMAGES PROVIDED BY:
1) wildpixel / Thinkstock
2) peterschreiber.media / Getty Images
3) simarik / Getty Images
4) Eraxion / Thinkstock
5) monkeybusinessimages / Getty Images
6) abadonian / Getty Images
7) KATERYNA KON / Science Source
8) SCIEPRO / Science Source
9) GMVozd / Getty Images
10) VioletaStoimenova /Getty Images
11) AndreyPopov / Thinkstock
12) Lars Neumann / Getty Images
SOURCES:
Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology: “ABO Blood Group and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in Two Prospective Cohort Studies.”
BMC Medicine: “Mortality and cancer in relation to ABO blood group phenotypes in the Golestan Cohort Study.”
American Cancer Society: “Stomach Cancer Risk Factors.”
University of Wisconsin Health: “Blood Type Test.”
Neurology: “ABO blood type, factor VIII, and incident cognitive impairment in the REGARDS cohort.”
Journal of the National Cancer Institute: “ABO Blood Group, Helicobacter pylori Seropositivity, and Risk of Pancreatic Cancer: A Case-Control Study.”
Northwestern Medicine: “What Does Your Blood Type Mean for Your Health?”
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine: “Blood Type Biochemistry and Human Disease.”
Mayo Clinic: “Peptic Ulcer,” “Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) infection.”
International Journal of Molecular Sciences: “ABO Blood Group System and Gastric Cancer: A Case-Control Study and Meta-Analysis.”
American Journal of Epidemiology: “Risk of Gastric Cancer and Peptic Ulcers in Relation to ABO Blood Type: A Cohort Study.”
Blood Transfusion: “Beyond immunohaematology: the role of the ABO blood group in human diseases.”
Human Reproduction: “Implications of blood type for ovarian reserve.”
Diabetologia: “ABO and Rhesus Blood Groups and Risk of Type 2 Diabetes: Evidence From the Large E3N Cohort Study.”
Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis: “ABO Blood Type and Stroke Risk: The Reasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke Study.”
Penn Medicine: “The Connection Between Blood Type and Heart Health.”