ABO blood group and COVID-19 severity: Associations with endothelial and adipocyte activation in critically ill patients

• Sophie Stukas,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Djavad Mowafaghian Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• George Goshua,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Internal Medicine, Section of Medical Oncology & Hematology, Yale School of Medicine and Yale Cancer Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Center for Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Yale New Haven Hospital, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

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• Edward M. Conway,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, Centre for Blood Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Agnes Y. Y. Lee,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Hematology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Ryan L. Hoiland,

  Roles Conceptualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Cellular and Physiological Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Chronic Disease Prevention and Management, University of British Columbia, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

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• Mypinder S. Sekhon,

  Roles Conceptualization, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Critical Care, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, Centre for Brain Health, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

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• Luke Y. C. Chen

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: lchen2@bccancer.bc.ca

  Affiliations Division of Hematology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, Division of Hematology, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9551-2951

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