While my blood type (AB negative) is neither the most useful to blood banks (O is the best) nor the least (AB positive blood can basically only be given to other AB positive recipients), I can take some small bizarre pride in knowing that it is the rarest-- only about 1% of Caucasians have AB- blood, compared to the 37% who have O+. Of course, there are other classification systems that use other characteristics of the blood, so that's not a full picture of what's going on in my veins, but it's still interesting.
Tuesday, January 8, 2013
Blood types
While my blood type (AB negative) is neither the most useful to blood banks (O is the best) nor the least (AB positive blood can basically only be given to other AB positive recipients), I can take some small bizarre pride in knowing that it is the rarest-- only about 1% of Caucasians have AB- blood, compared to the 37% who have O+. Of course, there are other classification systems that use other characteristics of the blood, so that's not a full picture of what's going on in my veins, but it's still interesting.
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