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Facts Behind Blood Donation

When we need blood for ourself or for a relative, we think that its our right to receive blood. We are ready to pay money for a few bottles of blood but unfortunately it is not something that can be manufactured in a factory as needed. If you expect to receive blood during emmergency or as a part of treatment, then you should certainly do the noble act of blood donation regularly to save life of others. If even half of the people who are eligible to donate blood do it once or twice a year, then we will not have blood shortages. It takes just half hour to donate blood, then why not take that short time from our busy lives and participate in a nearby blood donation program. There is no substitute for human blood.
June 14th is the World Blood Donor Day, blood donation might sound like a scary thing to many, but frankly it is very easy task. People often compare that what if they lost that same amount of blood in an injury or accident, frankly both are incomparable situations, because during an accident there are other bodily injuries which cause most pain and not just the loss of blood. The demand for blood is increasing as surgeries that require more transfusions become common. Often hospitals around the world have to postpone surgeries because of a lack of available blood.

Benefits of Blood Donation

1. The Kansas University Medical Center found that men who participate in blood donation experience a 30 percent fewer incidents of heart disease and stroke compared to those people who did not.
2. In 1998 American Journal of Epidemiology published that blood donation can reduce the overall iron levels in blood, which may protect against heart attack. But this applies to people who had high iron in their blood to begin with.
3. Blood donation forces your body to replace the lost blood with fresh NEW cells.
4. Men do not have menstrual period, therefore they store iron in their bodies, often its more than they need.
5. A healthy body replaces blood within 48 hours and creates NEW red blood cells within a week.
6. Most blood donation sites check your heart rate, hemoglobin, blood pressure etc.. for FREE. If you get those checked in a regular doctor's clinic, it will cost you money.
7. You hardly lose blood, average adult has 10 pints of total blood, we donate just 1 pint. Giving blood will not decrease your strength.
8. Most employers usually give time off when you want to donate blood.

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

ABO and Rh blood type distribution by nation (population averages)

Country ↓ Population[18] ↓ O+ ↓ A+ ↓ B+ ↓ AB+ ↓ O- ↓ A- ↓ B- ↓ AB- ↓
Australia[19] 21,262,641 40% 31% 8% 2% 9% 7% 2% 1%
Austria[20] 8,210,281 30% 33% 12% 6% 7% 8% 3% 1%
Belgium[21] 10,414,336 38% 34% 8.5% 4.1% 7% 6% 1.5% 0.8%
Brazil[22] 198,739,269 36% 34% 8% 2.5% 9% 8% 2% 0.5%
Canada[23] 33,487,208 39% 36% 7.6% 2.5% 7% 6% 1.4% 0.5%
Denmark[24] 5,500,510 35% 37% 8% 4% 6% 7% 2% 1%
Estonia[25] 1,299,371 30% 31% 20% 6% 4.5% 4.5% 3% 1%
Finland[26] 5,250,275 27% 38% 15% 7% 4% 6% 2% 1%
France[27] 62,150,775 36% 37% 9% 3% 6% 7% 1% 1%
Germany[28] 82,329,758 35% 37% 9% 4% 6% 6% 2% 1%
Hong Kong SAR[29] 7,055,071 40% 26% 27% 7% 0.31% 0.19% 0.14% 0.05%
Iceland[30] 306,694 47.6% 26.4% 9.3% 1.6% 8.4% 4.6% 1.7% 0.4%
India[31] 1,166,079,217 36.5% 22.1% 30.9% 6.4% 2.0% 0.8% 1.1% 0.2%
Ireland[32] 4,203,200 47% 26% 9% 2% 8% 5% 2% 1%
Israel[33] 7,233,701 32% 34% 17% 7% 3% 4% 2% 1%
New Zealand[34] 4,213,418 38% 32% 9% 3% 9% 6% 2% 1%
Norway[35] 4,660,539 34% 42.5% 6.8% 3.4% 6% 7.5% 1.2% 0.6%
Poland[36] 38,482,919 31% 32% 15% 7% 6% 6% 2% 1%
Portugal[37] 10,707,924 36.2% 39.8% 6.6% 2.9% 6.0% 6.6% 1.1% 0.5%
Saudi Arabia[38] 28,686,633 48% 24% 17% 4% 4% 2% 1% 0.23%
South Africa[39] 49,320,000 39% 32% 12% 3% 7% 5% 2% 1%
Spain[40] 40,525,002 36% 34% 8% 2.5% 9% 8% 2% 0.5%
Sweden[41] 9,059,651 32% 37% 10% 5% 6% 7% 2% 1%
Netherlands[42] 16,715,999 39.5% 35% 6.7% 2.5% 7.5% 7% 1.3% 0.5%
Turkey[43] 76,805,524 29.8% 37.8% 14.2% 7.2% 3.9% 4.7% 1.6% 0.8%
United Kingdom[44] 61,113,205 37% 35% 8% 3% 7% 7% 2% 1%
United States[45] 307,212,123 37.4% 35.7% 8.5% 3.4% 6.6% 6.3% 1.5% 0.6%
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Population-weighted mean (total population = 2,261,025,244) 36.44% 28.27% 20.59% 5.06% 4.33% 3.52% 1.39% 0.45%
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