Study the Relationship between Level of Cholesterol and Blood Group in Middle Age and Elderly Iraqi People

Abstract

The associations amongst cholesterol levels and ABO blood groups has been established but differ in many studies. Hypercholesteremia remained powerfully associated in the progress of cardiovascular diseases. The present study was carried out to estimated cholesterol concentration and blood group in the sera samples of (100) Iraqi people at the age range (20-70) years. Serum cholesterol done by auto-analyzer, while blood group by direct agglutination technique. The aim of this study to recognized whether the cholesterol level was related to ABO blood group in coronary heart disease individual. The study clarified increased concentration of cholesterol at the age (50-59 and 60-70) years other than age groups and observed that increased percentage of concentration of cholesterol in female (60%) more than male (40%).Also appeared that concentration of cholesterol increased at the blood group A+(33%) , B+(28%) , O+(12%) and AB+(11%) compared with other blood groups. So we concluded that cholesterol level was elevated in blood group A+ and B+ more than other blood group.