Abstract:
Many reports have appeared in recent years suggesting an association between blood groups and various manifestations of heart diseases.
This a descriptive analytical study aimed to determine frequency of blood group and Rhesus factor of patients with cardiovascular diseases in Khartoum state during the period from May to August 2014.
Seventy patients with different types of cardiovascular diseases attended Khartoum State Hospital was enrolled in this study. An informed consent was obtained from each patient before blood sample collection.ABO and Rh factors were performed by slide techniques using specific anti-sera. The data were analyzed by SPSS computer program. The results showed that most common blood group in patients with cardiovascular was O followed by A, least frequent was AB.
Majority (91.4%) of patients with cardiovascular were Rh positive.
Most common blood group in males was O (54.5%) and least frequent was AB (6.1%), and most common blood group in females was O (45.9%) followed by A (40.6%) and least frequent was AB (2.7%), and most common cardiovascular disease in females compared to males and most common disease was found in elder patients with age between (51-85years).
Most common cardiovascular diseases were ischemic heart disease followed by heart failure and least frequent was vavular heart disease, and most common disease in males was ischemic heart disease (33.3%) and least frequent was permanent pacemaker (0.0%) , also most common disease in females was ischemic heart disease (27.0%) and least frequent was valvular heart disease, and most common disease in patients with age between (23-50) was dilated cardiomyopathy (33.3) and most frequent disease in patients more than 50 years was ischemic heart disease (34.7%).
Finally, the results of the present study showed that there is no association of ABO blood group and Rh factor with cardiovascular diseases. Although the frequent of ischemic heart disease (IHD) was higher in O group, the difference was statistically insignificant.
