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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 28.
Published in final edited form as: Clin Transplant. 2021 Nov 29;36(2):e14530. doi: 10.1111/ctr.14530

Table 3.

Demographics and psychosocial factors among patients based on final listing decision

Demographic Final List Final Denial p-value
N 208 157
Age (mean (sd)) 60.0 (9.8) 61.8 (9.5) 0.08
Male 199 (95.7%) 153 (97.5%) 0.36
Race/ethnicity
  White 124 (59.6%) 86 (54.8%)
  Black/African American 60 (28.9%) 56 (35.7%) 0.33
  Hispanic 20 (9.6%) 10 (6.4%)
  Other 4 (1.9%) 5 (3.2%)
BMI (mean (sd)) 29.5 (4.2) 30.6 (5.1) 0.0146
HTN 200 (96.2%) 155 (98.7%) 0.20
DM 122 (58.9%) 110 (70.1%) 0.0288
LoT dialysis (median (IQR)) 587 (227-1297) 500 (249-1185) 0.57
Current Smoking 13 (6.3%) 12 (7.6%) 0.60
Previous Smoking 138 (66.4%) 118 (75.2%) 0.07
Psychosocial Factors
No psychiatric diagnosis 114 (54.8%) 68 (43.3%) 0.0118
All psychiatric diagnoses 94 (45.2%) 89 (56.7%) 0.0297
All psychiatric diagnoses on psychoactive meds 47 (22.6%) 45 (28.7%) 0.19
All anxiety spectrum 31 (14.9%) 28 (17.8%) 0.45
Depression 54 (26.0%) 61 (38.9%) 0.0087
PTSD 36 (17.3%) 37 (23.6%) 0.14
Schizophrenia/schizoaffective 2 (1.0%) 2 (1.3%) > .99
Bipolar 7 (3.4%) 1 (0.6%) 0.14
Personality disorder spectrum* 6 (2.9%) 8 (5.1%) 0.28
Other psychiatric diagnoses 12 (5.8%) 11 (7.0%) 0.79
Alcohol abuse history 87 (41.8%) 63 (40.1%) 0.74
Illicit drug 76 (36.5%) 70 (44.6%) 0.12
Cognitive impairment 27 (13.0%) 47 (29.9%) 0.0001
Adherence issues 27 (13.0%) 63 (40.1%) <0.0001

BMI, body mass index; HTN, hypertension; DM, diabetes mellitus; LoT dialysis, length of time on dialysis prior to date of transplant evaluation; PTSD, posttraumatic stress disorder

All patients with psychiatric diagnoses

Includes patients with anxiety, panic, and obsessive-compulsive disorders

*

Includes patients with anger management, borderline, antisocial and unclassified personality disorders