AB Blood Type And Infant Necrotizing Enterocolitis

Sunday, November 27, 2011 - 08:10 in Health & Medicine

Premature infants suffer a life-threatening destruction of intestinal tissue called necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) have gotten a new data point for researchers to examine: Preemies with the AB blood type who develop NEC are nearly three times as likely to die from it as preemies with other blood types.  read more

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