Disease risk associated with Blood type

In the past century, and especially in recent decades, there’s been interest in how the ABO blood type may relate to disease risk.

Cardiovascular disease: Blood type AB was associated with a 23 percent higher risk of cardiovascular disease, compared with type O, while type B was associated with an 11 percent higher risk, and type A, a 5 percent higher risk. Type AB with an increase in inflammation, both of which can raise heart disease risk.

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Cancer:  A, B, or AB blood type were at higher risk for developing stomach cancer (as well as of dying from heart disease), compared with people who were type O.

Diabetes: Type 2 diabetes was more likely to develop in those with type A and B blood, compared with type O.

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