Men with this blood type are more likely to have a heart attack.
If you don’t know your blood type, you may want to pick up the phone and ask your mom. This is because your blood group can tell you more about your health than you think, in fact, in March, we report the blood type can predict which men have better erections.
However, it could also be an indicator of something more damaging: new research, presented at Heart Failure 2017 (4th World Congress on Acute Heart Failure ), suggests that your blood type can help determine if you are at risk of having a heart attack. heart.
The researchers analyzed data from more than 1,300,000 people from nine previous studies and concluded that those with Type A, Type B, or Type AB blood were 9 percent more likely to have a cardiovascular event – such as a heart attack – than those with type O blood.
The exact mechanism behind the increased cardiac risk is not exactly clear. But one possibility may be because people with blood other than type O have higher concentrations of a blood-clotting protein, called von Willebrand factor, which can lead to the development of clots, which can make blood clots more likely. heart attacks.
People with blood other than type O also tend to have a higher cholesterol level and higher levels of inflammation.
More research is needed to clarify the links between blood group and heart risks – and to examine each blood type separately – but researchers believe that blood type may play a role in assessing the risk of heart disease, alongside traditional factors such as cholesterol, age and blood pressure.