Enfermedades crónicas y su relación con los grupos sanguíneos ABO en pacientes atendidos en el Hospital José Carrasco Arteaga - IESS. Cuenca mayo 2019 – mayo 2020

Abstract

Background: Chronic diseases represent a serious health problem, of prolonged duration and slow progression. In America, in the Andean area, cardiovascular diseases figure 26.5%, cancer 17.1%, chronic respiratory diseases 5.4%, diabetes 5.1%, and others are located 17,1%. In Santiago de Chile in 2007 a study was conducted regarding ABO blood groups, groups blood B and AB are at risk for lung cancer, and group O for gastric and prostate cancer. Objective: To establish chronic diseases and their relationship with ABO blood groups in patients treated at the José Carrasco Arteaga-IESS Hospital, Cuenca, May 2019 – May 2020. Methodology: The present study has a descriptive cross-sectional and retrospective approach in patients with chronic diseases in the Oncology, Clinical, Surgery, Gynecology and Pediatrics areas at the José Carrasco Arteaga Hospital in the period 2019 - 2020. The data will be processed in SPSS Statistics 25 and Excel, the information will be analyzed through percentages, frequencies, measures of central tendency, to establish association and statistical significance between the variables, the prevalence ratio and the P value will be used. Results: Of the 200 medical records of the patients treated at the IESS, 42.5% corresponded to patients diagnosed with chronic diseases. Among the most frequently found diseases, primary hypertension is in first place with a percentage of 20% and congenital heart disease with 12.9%, the two with greater frequency in male patients with blood type O, the presence of chronic diseases in female patients is 23.5%.