Correlation between Blood Group with Cause of Death and Manner of Death in Medico Legal Autopsies in Jamnagar Region.

摘要

Background: Since discovery of blood groups by Landsteiner they have fascinated scientist in more then one way. Patterns of various types of blood groups in various diseases have been studied by many workers. Now we know that in some diseases there is statistically correlation between particular types of blood group Aims: Aim of present study was to evaluate correlation between blood group and cause of death and manner of death. Material and Method: This study was conducted on 500 medico-legal autopsies which were brought to Forensic medicine Department, M. P. Shah Govt. Medical College, Jamnagar during the period of November-2006 to May-2007. Result: Out of 500 cases blood groups for both ABO and Rh system could be detected in 457 cases (91.4%) and in 43 cases (8.6%) could not be detected. Out of 212 cases of accidental deaths most of the cases were of blood group B+ ve, 70 cases (33.01%). Out of 128 cases of suicidal death, maximum number of cases found in O+ve they were 41(36.71%). Deaths from cardiovascular system were 62case (72.9%) in that Blood group B+ve was maximum 24 cases. In case of unnatural deaths, most of the cases were of burns, those were 99 cases (27.42%), followed by vehicular accident cases, 87cases (24.09%). Out of 99 cases of burns, maximum blood group found in this group was A+ve, 29 cases followed by O+ve, 23cases. Conclusion: Present study shows correlation between causes of death, manner of death and blood group like death due to CVS and vehicular accident is more common in B+ blood group, poisoning case is more common in O+ blood group, and suicide is more common in blood group O+.