Table 1.

Characteristics of the hematology patients included in the study cohort.

	Cases (%)(n = 46)	Controls (%)(n = 184)	p-value
Age (median, range)	62 (range 20-83)	58 (range 21-77)	0.43
Gender			0.17
Male	26 (56.5)	125 (67.9)
Female	20 (43.5)	59 (32.1)
Neutropenia	35 (76.1)	40 (21.7)	<0.0001
Use of steroids	18 (39.1)	15 (8.2)	<0.0001
Previous allogeneic HCT	15 (32.6)	27 (14.7)	0.0093
GvHD	6 (13.0)	8 (4.3)	0.039
T-lymphocyte inhibitor	12 (26.1)	69 (37.5)	0.17
Hemodialysis	1 (2.2)	3 (1.6)	1
Diabetes	1 (2.2)	12 (6.5)	0.47

HCT, hematopoietic cell transplantation; GvHD, graft-versus-host disease.

p-values <0.05 in bold (denote statistical significance).