Abstract
Blood group, bleeding time and clotting time play very important role before any surgical procedure. ABO blood group system is an important factor in the field of transfusion medicine. The study was aimed to observe the abundance of specific ABO blood groups and its coordination with bleeding and clotting time of individuals of different ethnicity in Quetta, Balochistan, and also some other variables were taken under consideration such as gender, age, weight and blood pressure. Blood group was determined by antisera, bleeding time by duke’s filter paper method and clotting time by Wright’s capillary tube method. Chi-square test was applied and the P value of <0.05 was taken as statistically significant. As a result of study, B blood group was found to be most common whereas AB was least common and they had no significance with bleeding time and clotting time but bleeding time was observed to be significant with ethnicity and clotting time significant with ethnicity and gender. Bleeding time had negative correlation with clotting time, age, weight and systolic blood pressure. While clotting time had positive correlation with age and weight but it was also negatively correlated with systolic blood pressure. Finally, no exact abundance of ABO blood groups occurred based on four mentioned ethnic groups but bleeding time and clotting time differ among them and also bleeding time and clotting time increase with decreasing age. Females and low aged individuals lie in the normal range of blood pressure as compared to males and high aged individuals. Keywords: Age; Bleeding time (B.T); Blood Group; Clotting time (C.T); Ethnicity; Gender http://dx.doi.org/10.19045/bspab.2018.700141
Highlights
Introduction surgical procedure on routine basesHematological parameters play an the hospital blood tests are performed [1].important role before initiating anyGroup of blood, time of bleeding and timePublished by Bolan Society for Pure and Applied Biology of clotting are the most important and initial hematological parameters
Over all, when the blood groups were observed it was seen that those people with O blood group have prolonged bleeding time as greater than 30 seconds, which was observed in an article Kaur et al [22] that O blood group has prolonged bleeding time, AB blood group individuals had bleeding time less than 30 sec or equal to 30 sec which was seen in a research paper by Roy et al [23] that AB blood groups’ bleeding time was less as compared to the other blood group individuals
Regarding Mahaptra, Sasekala and Saikumar [26, 27] said that clotting time was significantly prolonged in the blood group B individuals, but the bleeding time was prolonged in the individuals of AB blood group this was due to the percentage of blood group in different studies, may be due to sampling error, genetic factors, natural selection which was effected by traditions and habits
Summary
Introduction surgical procedure on routine basesHematological parameters play an the hospital blood tests are performed [1].important role before initiating anyGroup of blood, time of bleeding and time. The bleeding lasts for 3 to 4 minutes [11]
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