Patients’ characteristics
Of the 119 total patients included in the study, 66 (55.5%) were
female. At diagnosis, 32 patients (26.9%) were H.
pylori –positive and 87 (73.1%) were H. pylori –negative. TheH. pylori –positive and H. pylori –negative groups showed
a similar median age (32 vs 34) and gender distribution (F/M: 18/14 vs
48/39), with no statistically significant difference in these regards
(respectively, p=0.127 and p=0.078). Both groups predominantly consisted
of newly diagnosed patients and were not significantly different in this
aspect [28(87.5%) vs 80(91.9%), p=0.094], Demographic, clinical
and laboratory characteristics of patients with H.
pylori –positive and H. pylori –negative ITP were shown in Table
1.