A non-modifiable risk factor. I have O negative blood so even that didn't prevent my stroke.
The research article here;
Mortality and cancer in relation to ABO blood group phenotypes in the Golestan Cohort Study
Conclusions
Non-O blood groups have an increased mortality, particularly due to cardiovascular
diseases, which may be due to the effect of blood group alleles on blood biochemistry
or their effect on von Willebrand factor and factor VIII levels.
A news writeup about the research;
In the study, researchers followed about 50,000 middle-age and elderly
people in northeastern Iran for an average of seven years. They found
that people with non-O blood types were 9 percent more likely to die
during the study for any health-related reason, and 15 percent more
likely to die from cardiovascular disease, compared with people with blood type O.
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