One Blood Type Seems to Carry a Higher Risk of Type 2 Diabetes - ScienceAlert
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Depending on your blood type, it's possible you could carry a higher diabetes risk, research suggests. According to a 2024 review, people with blood type B – either positive or negative – face a slightly higher risk of developing type 2 diabetes than people with non-B blood types. How much higher? About 28 percent, on average. That might not seem huge, but it may be significant enough to tip the scales if other risk factors are involved. "Numerous systematic reviews with meta-analyses have been published, which explored correlations between ABO and Rhesus blood groups with various health outcomes," wrote a team led by epidemiologist Fang-Hua Liu of Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University. "However, to date, the association between these blood groups and human health outcomes remains controversial. The current umbrella review included 51 systematic reviews with meta-analysis articles with 270 associations. "We recalculated each association and found only one [instance of] convincing evidence for an association between blood group B and type 2 diabetes mellitus risk compared with the non-B blood group.
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