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Prospective analysis: does ice bathing harden against COVID-19 and is B RhD- the least viral resistant blood group in Polish ice bathers?

Andrzej Tukiendorf
1
,
Łukasz Wysoczański
2
,
Paulina Wysoczańska
2
,
Marcus Lancé
3
,
Piotr Feusette
4
,
Zbigniew Szczepanowski
5
,
Sylwia Michalak
6
,
Wawrzyniec Mantorski
7
,
Julia Mardusińska
8
,
Edyta Wolny-Rokicka
9
,
Maria Bujnowska-Fedak
2

  1. Institute of Health Sciences, University of Opole, Opole, Poland
  2. Department of Family Medicine, Wroclaw Medical University, Wroclaw, Poland
  3. Department of Anesthesiology, Aga Khan University Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya
  4. Department of Cardiology, University Hospital in Opole, Opole, Poland
  5. ChirMedicus, Kedzierzyn-Kozle, Poland
  6. Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zielona Gora, Zielona Gora, Poland
  7. District Hospital in Raciborz, Raciborz, Poland
  8. University Clinical Center, Gdansk, Poland
  9. Multispecialty Hospital in Zgorzelec, Zgorzelec, Poland
Family Medicine & Primary Care Review 2024; 26(2): 231–238
Online publish date: 2024/06/17
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