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Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman

Asthma is one the globally human chronic disease that frequently found among childhood which related to human genetic factor and also the environmental factors. Few studies have investigated the role of ABO blood group which related to the pathogenesis and prognosis of many human diseases such as ca...

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Main Author: Abd Rahman, Nur Fatin Athirah
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Published: 2016
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Social aspects of education
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spelling my.uitm.ir.534782024-09-01T10:34:23Z https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/53478/ Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman Abd Rahman, Nur Fatin Athirah Social aspects of education Asthma is one the globally human chronic disease that frequently found among childhood which related to human genetic factor and also the environmental factors. Few studies have investigated the role of ABO blood group which related to the pathogenesis and prognosis of many human diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Since there is no research about association of ABO blood group with asthma in Malaysian population, this study was conducted to determine the association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate Health Sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam. The subjects were identified and selected based on the selection criteria through simple random sampling method. The self-administered questionnaires were distributed in which consist of written consent forms and close-ended questionnaires. All data collected were analyzed by using SPSS version 21.0. Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were performed to measure the association of the data. The data from this study showed the frequency of Health Sciences students ever experience asthma was 22 over 149 subjects. The general distribution of ABO blood group showed high frequency of blood group O (43.0%), followed by blood group B (28.9%), blood group A (23.5%) and blood group AB (4.7%). Relationship between ABO blood group and asthma showed no statistically significant association (p>0.05). Therefore, no association found between different blood group and asthma plus there was an increase in prevalence rate of asthma with 15% among undergraduate Health Sciences students. 2016 Thesis NonPeerReviewed text en https://ir.uitm.edu.my/id/eprint/53478/1/53478.pdf Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman. (2016) Degree thesis, thesis, Universiti Teknologi MARA. <http://terminalib.uitm.edu.my/53478.pdf>
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Abd Rahman, Nur Fatin Athirah
Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman
description Asthma is one the globally human chronic disease that frequently found among childhood which related to human genetic factor and also the environmental factors. Few studies have investigated the role of ABO blood group which related to the pathogenesis and prognosis of many human diseases such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Since there is no research about association of ABO blood group with asthma in Malaysian population, this study was conducted to determine the association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate Health Sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam. The subjects were identified and selected based on the selection criteria through simple random sampling method. The self-administered questionnaires were distributed in which consist of written consent forms and close-ended questionnaires. All data collected were analyzed by using SPSS version 21.0. Chi-square and Fisher's exact tests were performed to measure the association of the data. The data from this study showed the frequency of Health Sciences students ever experience asthma was 22 over 149 subjects. The general distribution of ABO blood group showed high frequency of blood group O (43.0%), followed by blood group B (28.9%), blood group A (23.5%) and blood group AB (4.7%). Relationship between ABO blood group and asthma showed no statistically significant association (p>0.05). Therefore, no association found between different blood group and asthma plus there was an increase in prevalence rate of asthma with 15% among undergraduate Health Sciences students.
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author Abd Rahman, Nur Fatin Athirah
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title Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman
title_short Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman
title_full Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman
title_fullStr Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman
title_full_unstemmed Association of ABO blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in UiTM Puncak Alam / Nur Fatin Athirah Abd Rahman
title_sort association of abo blood group with asthma among undergraduate health sciences students in uitm puncak alam / nur fatin athirah abd rahman
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