Many people don't know what their blood type is? Even if you have been admitted to the hospital, you may not know your blood type, because the blood type is not a routine examination, so under what circumstances will the doctor recommend a blood type test?
For example, if you have a serious blood system disease, or because of heavy bleeding, you need an emergency blood transfusion, this time you need to test the blood type, the doctor tests the blood type, in fact, it is mainly to prepare for blood transfusion.
In addition, when pregnant women are pregnant, doctors also recommend checking the blood type, which is to know the blood type of pregnant women and husbands, and to judge the risk of hemolysis of the baby in advance.
There is also a case where you can know your blood type, and that is when donating blood for free, this is the most basic operation.
The question is, what are our blood types?
In 1900, the Austrian medical scientist Landsteiner was the first to discover three blood types A, B and O, and was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1930. After that, his students discovered the AB blood type.
So, to this day, our blood types are divided into four major blood types, A, B, AB, and O.
Different blood types have different advantages, but which blood type is more likely to live longer?
First, people with type A blood, type A blood are more likely to suffer from cerebrovascular diseases and cancer, but people with type A blood have strong endurance, are usually best at health management planning, easy to develop good living and eating habits, and the advantages of personality will reduce the risk of disease in people with type A blood.
Second, people with blood type B have good gastrointestinal digestion ability, but the proportion of tuberculosis, oral cancer, breast cancer and leukemia is also higher than that of other blood types.
Third, AB blood, people of this blood type, gastrointestinal digestive function will be a little worse, ab blood patients are less likely to have cancer and stroke, but the risk of coronary heart disease is higher, once the heart is injured, the symptoms are more severe, the proportion of myocardial infarction is significantly increased.
Fourth, O type blood, O type blood is the world's largest number of blood types, about 46% of the world's people are O blood type blood, it is known as the "strongest blood type", also known as "universal blood type", O type blood people, susceptible to stomach, duodenal ulcers, prostate cancer, bladder cancer.
It can be seen that different blood types have different advantages, but they also have different disadvantages, so there is no blood type with the longest life.