Eat Right 4 Your Type®    A database of blood group correlations
to common diseases  Total number of records: 145 Matching
records: 1  Emphysema (COPD)  Description:ABH non-secretors have
a higher incidence of emphysema and COPD.Nonsecretors had
significantly lower mean values of forced expiratory volume in
one second as a percentage of forced vital capacity (FEV1/FVC%)
and a significantly larger proportion of them had aberrant
values, defined as FEV1/FVC% less than 68. These differences
remained when mean values or rates of aberrancy were adjusted
for other factors reported to alter risk of airway obstruction.
In view of the known COPD-peptic ulcer and nonsecretor-duodenal
ulcer associations, these findings suggest that the ability to
secrete ABH antigens into secretions of the respiratory and
gastrointestinal tract may have a protective effect on
epithelialized organs in general, or on the lung and portions of
the gut specifically. (1)  For example, ABO type, familial
component, coffee drinking and diet sod