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. 2020 Sep;190(5):e268-e270.
doi: 10.1111/bjh.17059. Epub 2020 Aug 14.

Down the Rabbit-Hole of blood groups and COVID-19

Hisato Takagi  1
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Down the Rabbit-Hole of blood groups and COVID-19

Hisato Takagi. Br J Haematol. 2020 Sep.
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Keywords: COVID-19; blood groups; meta-regression.

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The author declares no competing interests.

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Metaregression graphs depicting the COVID‐19 prevalence/fatality (plotted as the logarithm‐transformed prevalence/fatality on the y‐axis) as a function of a given covariate (plotted on the x‐axis). Logarithm‐transformed prevalence on blood group B‐Rh(+) (A) and logarithm‐transformed fatality on O‐Rh(+) (B), B‐Rh(+) (C), and A‐Rh(+) (D).
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