Type A people are 16% more likely to have a stroke before age 60.
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It was found that people with blood type A were more likely to have a stroke before the age of 60 than people with other blood types. [사진= 게티이미지뱅크]The disease that causes the most deaths in Korea is stroke, which can be caused by various causes and the risk of which increases with the arrival of cold weather. Typical causes include hypertension, diabetes, hyperlipidemia, and arrhythmia. However, research has shown that blood type is also a factor that increases the likelihood of having a stroke.
According to a study published in the academic journal Neurology, people with blood type A are more likely to have a stroke before age 60 than people with other blood types.
The researchers collected data from 48 genetic studies involving about 17,000 stroke patients and about 600,000 people without stroke. The ages of the participants ranged from 18 to 59 years.
As a result of a genome-wide search, it was found that two positions were closely related to early stroke risk, and one position corresponded to the position of the blood group gene. An analysis of genes for specific blood types found that people whose genomes coded for the type A variant were 16% more likely to have a stroke before age 60 than those with other blood types.
“We don’t yet know why type A blood types carry a higher risk,” says Steven Kittner, a vascular neurologist at the University of Maryland and senior author of the study. “It appears that it may be related to other circulating proteins that play an important role in development.”
The researchers also compared and analyzed data from about 9,300 people over the age of 60 who had suffered a stroke and data from about 25,000 people over the age of 60 who had not had a stroke.
The study found that the increased risk of stroke for those with type A blood type was minimal in the late-onset group. The researchers said: “This suggests that strokes that occur early in life may have different mechanisms than strokes that occur later in life” and that “strokes in young people are less likely to be caused by deposits of fat that accumulate in the arteries and are less serious.” it’s probably caused by factors related to blood clot formation.” “It’s more likely to occur,” she said.
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