Correlation of ABO Blood Group dan HbA1c in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Anutapura Hospital Palu

Diabetes mellitus (DM) is the 4th leading non-infectious disease (NCD) cause of death in the world. The gold standard for glycemic control is HbA1c. DM disease has a genetic component, as well as ABO blood group, hypothesizing a relationship between the two because of the many factors that affect DM disease. This study aims to determine the correlation between Blood group and HbA1c in DM patients. This study is an analytic observational study. A total of 90 medical check-up patients who had increase glucose profile or HbA1c were included in the study as DM patients. Blood group data and HbA1c were then tested with the Contingency coefficient test correlation test. The most blood group found was blood group B (34.4%) and the least was blood group AB (6.7%). The most HbA1c found were >9% (53.3%), blood group O had the most HbA1c >9% (60.0%). Blood groups A and B were also found to have high percentage HbA1c >9% is 52.2% and 51.6% respectively. The percentage of each ABO blood group that had HbA1c of 6.5-9% varied between 33% - 66%. Only 3% of the sample had HbA1c <6.5%. The test results showed no significant correlation between blood group and HbA1c (p=0.912; R=0.150). HbA1c were found not to be significantly correlate with ABO blood group.