ABSTRACT

Dengue fever is the fastest spreading mosquito-borne viral disease in the world, affecting millions of humans annually. Studies on association of blood groups with dengue fever are less informative and further age and sex with dengue fever is very limited. Hence to study the susceptibility of human population to dengue fever concerning their blood groups, age and sex. Human individuals both admitted and outpatients were divided into ‘7’ groups according to their age (between 1 to 70 years) & sex. Alongside the serum samples were collected. Hospital based case control study has been done to determine the susceptibility of human individuals to dengue fever in relation to their blood groups, age and sex. DMR test, where Values are means (n=6) which do not share common superscript differ significantly at p<0.05. This study finds that the occurrence of dengue fever is more in human individuals with blood group B+ , followed by O, A, AB and age groups between 1 & 20 years and 41 & 60 years of males and females where males are more susceptible to dengue fever than females. Blood group B+ , aged between 1 & 20 years and 41 & 60 years and males are more prone to the occurrence of dengue fever. Keywords: Age, Blood groups, Dengue, Epidemiology, Sex
Publication date: 01/09/2022

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https://doi.org/10.31032/IJBPAS/2022/11.9.6375