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.