Stress-induced hyperglycemia is associated with the mortality of thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura patients.

"supplementary material 1 supplementary figure s boxplots of blood glucose concentration between patients with and without glucocorticoid pre-treatment before admission supplementary material 2 supplementary table s1 data of the validation cohort supplementary material 3 supplementary table s2 30-day mortality of ttp patients by years publisher's note springer nature remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations."

"Declarations Ethics approvalMedical Ethics Committee of Taizhou Hospital of Zhejiang Province. (Identification code: K20220211, date: 15 February 2022). Competing interestsThe authors declare no competing financial interests. Consent for publicationAll authors have read and approved the final version of the manuscript. Competing interests The authors declare no competing financial interests."

"Funding This work was supported by grants from the Medical Science and Technology Project of Zhejiang Province (2022KY1378)."