Determination of ABO Blood Groups and Rhesus Factor in Sudanese Patients with Cardiovascular Diseases

Abstract

This is analytical case control study aimed to determine the frequency of blood group and Rhesus factor of patients with cardiovascular disease attended Sudan heart center during the period from February to August 2016. Two hundred patients with different types of cardiovascular disease attend to Sudan Heart Center were enrolled in this study as a case and one hundred subject without cardiovascular disease were taken as control. A questionnaire comprising gender, Type of cardiovascular diseases, Blood group, Rh factor, age was not comprising in this study. ABO and Rh factors were determined by slide techniques and du method techniques using specific anti-sera after blood sample collection the data were analyzed by SPSS computer program.

The results showed that most common blood group in patients with cardiovascular diseases was O (49%) vs (57%) control, followed by A (30.5%) case vs (21%) control, B (16.5%) case vs (11%) control and least frequent was AB (4%) case vs (11%) control .

Majority of case were Rh positive (91.5%) vs (88%) control. Most common cardiovascular diseases were found in males (61%) vs (39%) females.

Most common blood group is O then A then B and least AB

Majority of patient is Rh positive. The percentage of cardiovascular disease in males is more than females. Most common type of cardiovascular disease is vascular disease.

The results of the present showed there is no association of ABO blood group and Rh factor with cardiovascular disease all though the frequent of cardiovascular disease was higher in group O, this difference statistically insignificant.