People with Type A blood are significantly more likely to catch coronavirus than those with Type O, Chinese academics have found.

中国学者发现，A型血的人感染上新型冠状病毒的风险比O型血的人大得多。

The study in Wuhan also found those with Type A blood are more likely to die from COVID-19.

武汉的这一研究还发现，A型血的人患新冠肺炎后的死亡几率更高。

In the general population Type O blood (34%) is more common than A (32%).

However, among COVID-19 patients, people with Type O accounted for just 25%, whereas Type A made up 41%.

从人口总体分布情况来看，O型血的人(34%)比A型血的人(32%)更多。

但是，在新冠肺炎患者中，O型血的人只占了25%，而A型血的人占了41%。

People with Type O blood made up a quarter (25%) of deaths in the research.

Normally, Type O people make up 32 percent of people in Wuhan.

调查统计的死于新冠肺炎的患者中，O型血的人占了四分之一(25%)。

正常来说，O型血的人占武汉人口的32%。

The controversial correlation has yet to be scrutinised by other academics in peer review and the researchers are unable to explain why infection varies by blood type.

这一富有争议的关联性还有待接受同行评审，研究人员也未能解释为什么不同血型的人感染新冠病毒的风险不同。

Researchers in China assessed 2,173 people who had been diagnosed with the coronavirus, including 206 people who died after contracting the virus, from three hospitals in Hubei.

中国的研究人员评估了2173名新冠肺炎患者的数据，包括来自湖北三家医院206名因感染新冠病毒而死亡的患者。

Academics compared the data of the infected Wuhan patients with 3,694 non-infected people in the same region.

学者们将感染病毒的武汉患者数据与同一地区的3694名未感染病毒的人进行比较。

Of the 206 patients in the study who died, 85 had type A blood, equivalent to 41 percent of all deaths.

调查统计的206名死亡患者中，85名是A型血，占据了死亡总数的41%。

In the healthy Wuhan population, a city of 11 million people, 34 percent of people are type A.

在拥有1100万人口的武汉，健康人口中有34%是A型血。

In the study, 52 of the people who died were type O, making up a quarter of all deaths.

Under normal conditions 32 percent of people are type O.

该研究统计的死亡患者中有52名是O型血，占据了死亡总数的四分之一。

正常情况下，32%的人是O型血。

The figures for all infections, not just deaths, are 26 percent and 38 percent for type O and type A, respectively.

包括死亡患者在内，感染新冠病毒的O型血患者和A型血患者分别占了26%和38%。

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