“…Covariates involved in this present work can be summarized as demographic data, general information, our prior work, previous literature, and clinical experiences [17][18][19][20]. Therefore, the following variables were used to construct the fully-adjusted model: sex, age, height, weight, smoking status, drink habits, Helicobacter pylori burden, comorbidities (type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, hyperuricemia), mean platelet volume (MPV), bleeding symptoms (skin, mucosa, organ), first-line treatment strategy (oral prednisone, high-dose dexamethasone) and mean platelet distribution (MPD) at diagnosis.…”