[Body structure and ABO and Rh blood groups in patients with advanced coronary heart disease after aorto-coronary by-pass surgery].

A clinical analysis of the anthropometric traits related to body structure, ABO and rhesus blood groups was performed in 200 male individuals coming mainly from Warsaw and its territorial district. All patients were aged from thirty-one to sixty-eight years (X = 42.3) and total duration of coronary heart disease was from 1 to 12 years. The number of 54 patients (21%) was subjected to surgery because of coronary insufficiency, but without myocardial infarction (M.I.). One or three single cases of M.I. were reported in the remaining number of 146 patients (73%). A degree of extension of arteriosclerotic lesions either in two or three coronary arteries was larger determined upon coronarography. The control group for blood--groups in 200 patients was made of 11,820 healthy male--blood from District Blood Donor Station in Warsaw, but for the anthropometric tracts (height, body weight and Rohrer's index) the control group was made of 283 men aged 35-80 years (average 43.2) coming mainly from Warsaw and its district. Patients after aorto-coronary by-pas surgery with highly advanced arteriosclerosis of the coronary arteries featured indicated significantly higher number of cases with group AB (p < 0.01) due to deficiency in group O (p < 0.05). It has also been found that the occurrence of rhesus blood group lack in patients having undergone by-pass surgery is significantly common (p < 0.01). No significant difference in anthropological traits between the patients after aorto-coronary by-pass surgery and the control group from the same geographical region was reported.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)