Blood group association with fingerprints in coronary heart disease patients

Aim: to determine blood group variation and blood group association with fingerprints in coronary heart disease patients and to support the evidence of court of law regarding identification of persons. study design: observational descriptive study place and duration of study: study was conducted at akhtar saeed medical & dental college,lahore and data was collected from the pic,lahore from april 2012 to june 2012. methods: finger prints were collected from the subjects after obtaining their informed consent in the month of 1 april,2012 to 15 june,2012. a total of 140 diagnosed patients were selected from the opd of punjab institute of cardiology and data were analyzed at akhtar saeed medical& dental college lahore. finger prints were recorded on a plain white paper with a stamp pad by plain and rolled method and each finger print was assigned by their name,age,and sex,were recorded. results: out of these one hundred and forty patients the majority of the patients were belonging to whorl pattern of finger prints i.e.,90(57%),and the most common blood group found in coronary heart disease patients was b+ve,46(32.9%). conclusion: whorls are the most commonly occurring fingerprint pattern followed by loop pattern,arch and composite are the least common pattern. blood group b positive is the most common and ab negative was the rarest blood group. whorls are predominant in blood group b+ve,o+ve and ab+ve in coronary heart disease patients.