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Age, sex of blood donor may impact patient outcome: study


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The findings in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Internal Medicine are based on a study of more than 30,000 transfusion patients in Canada, and the more than 80,000 donors that provided the blood. The patients had an average age of 66 and were followed for between two and seven years after their transfusion. When researchers looked at younger donors of either sex, they also found an eight percent higher risk of death among recipients of donations from people aged 17-20, compared with recipients of red blood cells from donors aged 40-50.

 

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