“…2 In this study, a total of eight covariates are considered such as seven categorical covariates, age ((0,40],(40,60],(60,100], with (0,40] as reference category), sex (female, male, with female as reference category), race (African American, European American, others, with African American as reference category), conditioning regimen (full, reduced, with full as reference category), human leukocyte antigen (HLA) match (7/8,8/8,<7/8, with 7/8 as reference category), donor (matched-related, matched-unrelated, with matched-related as reference category), and disease risk index (very high, high, intermediate, low, with very high as reference category), and one continuous covariate, comorbidity index. Because the multivariable analysis requires a complete data without missing, we removed the patients with missing values, resulting in a total of 606 patients.…”