TY - JOUR ID - TI - Distribution of Blood Groups and Rhesus factor among selected sample of Iraqi Students AU - Salwa Sh. Abdulwahid AU - Karim Al- Jashamy PY - 2015 VL - 4 IS - 2 SP - 59 EP - 63 JO - Iraq Joural of Hematology المجلة العراقية لامراض الدم SN - 20728069 25432702 AB - Background: There exists ignorance of blood groups among many people and surprisinglyeven among the literates. Despite the importance of this health parameter in blood transfusion,it is also one of the requirement of obtaining driving license and national identity card.Objectives: The objectives of this study were to determine the frequency of the bloodgrouping (ABO) and Rhesus (Rh) factor of the blood groups and to determine the awarenesson the importance of blood grouping among the study's populationSubjects and methods: The total number of sample size of this study was 278 students wereselected randomly. The study was carried out among two cohort of student's population. Firstcohort was 168 medical students from Faculty of Medicine, while second cohort included 110non-medical students from Baquba Technical Institute' students. The study samples have theirblood groups determined according to that documented before. While those who don’t knowtheir ABO & Rh blood grouping marked as DK.Results: The result of this study shows that the rate of blood grouping were 25.5%, 22.3%,32.0%, 6.1%, and 16.9 %, for blood group A, B, O, AB, and DK respectively ;while forRhesus factor blood grouping the results revealed that the rates were 77.0%, 6.1% and 16.9%,for positive, negative and DK respectively.Conclusion: The blood group O with Rh positive was the most common prevalent among theselected groups, Knowledge of blood group distribution is important for clinical studies, forreliable geographical information and for forensic studies in the population.

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