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There are four types of blood groups or blood type and as a human being, you must be having one of the four. 

They include A, B, AB, and O. Additionally, there is another component attached to these blood types known as Rhesus Factor. 

But not every type has the rhesus factor.

Therefore, if you have the rhesus factor component, your blood type will either be described as Blood Group X+ or X- (X represents either A, B, AB, or O)

Nothing on earth would cross someone’s mind to think whether their blood type meant something about their own personality. 

However, according to a paper published by professor Tokeji Furukawa in 1939, the Japanese scholar revealed that a person’s blood type describes their very own personalities.

Adding to the Japanese professor revelation, hundreds of research have been conducted that show how blood groups provide patterns of one’s own health. According to a number of researchers, it has been revealed that different blood groups can protect us from different diseases. 

For a long time, experts have linked different blood types to different disease as shown in this article.

Blood type A individuals are more likely to have more of cortisol- a stress hormone. 

Therefore, predisposing them to 20 percent chances of stomach cancer according to the National Institutes of Health. 

They also have 5 percent chances of catching heart disease compared to blood type O

Blood type B people have an 11 percent more risk of heart disease than with type O people according to a research by Harvard University which also found that women with AB or B blood are more at risk of developing ovarian cancer. 

That notwithstanding, Blood type B people have at least 50,000 times more of responsive bacteria compared to those with either type A or O blood, which means they are more an advantage.

Blood AB type has 23 percent chances of developing heart disease compared to people with group O. 

An expectant mother with type AB could be more at risk of blood pressure condition known as pre-eclampsia.

Blood type O is the most unique of all the blood types. With O, you Are more at risk of developing stomach ulcers and even rupture your Achilles tendons. 

Moreover, you can easily be infected with cholera. 

However, you are more invisible to malaria and mosquito bites. The grand deal is the fact that it is next to impossible to catch pancreatic cancer.