title: ABO blood groups and renal disease.
abstract: This study compares the frequency of ABO blood group distribution between 184 patients with renal parenchymal diseases and 3,820 apparently healthy subjects. The renal diseases were confirmed by renal biopsy studies in all patients. The distribution of renal patients among the blood groups was significantly different (p less than 0.01) from the blood group distribution of normal subjects. The differences occurred mainly in the B and O Groups with renal patients showing a 7 percent increase in Group B and a 10 percent decrease in Group O.
mesh_terms: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System; D006801:Humans; D007674:Kidney Diseases / Q000097:blood*; D012189:Retrospective Studies
chemical_list: D000017:ABO Blood-Group System