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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2024 Feb 10;24(5):803–817. doi: 10.1016/j.ajt.2024.02.009

Table 4.

Multivariate competing risk analyses* for risk for all-cause mortality, transplant waitlist, and decompensation.

All-cause Mortality
Transplant Waitlist
Decompensation
Risk Factor HR 95% CI p-value HR 95% CI p-value HR 95% CI p-value
Income
Per capita income for every $10,000 increase 0.96 0.94–0.98 <0.001 1.08 1.05–1.12 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.00 <0.001
Median family income in US dollars per $10,000 increase 0.98 0.97–1.00 0.022 1.12 1.09–1.14 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.00 <0.001
% Families below federal poverty level per 10% increase 1.03 0.99–1.06 0.150 0.62 0.57–0.68 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.01 0.002
Income disparity per 0.1 increase of Gini Index 0.93 0.88–0.98 <0.01 0.73 0.65–0.81 <0.001 0.76 0.50–1.17 0.217
Education
% Population aged 25 years or older with less than 9 years of education per 10% increase 1.02 0.98–1.05 0.340 0.72 0.67–0.78 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.01 0.029
% Population aged 25 years or older with at least a high school diploma per 10% increase 1.06 1.03–1.10 <0.001 0.98 0.92–1.05 0.601 1.01 1.00–1.01 <0.001
% Civilian labor force population aged 16 years and older who are unemployed per 10% increase 1.17 1.05–1.31 <0.01 0.65 0.49–0.84 <0.001 1.01 1.00–1.02 0.169
Social Support
% Single-parent households with children younger than 18 per 10% increase 1.02 1.00–1.04 0.031 0.80 0.76–0.84 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.00 0.002
Housing Conditions
Median home value in US dollars per $10,000 0.97 0.96–0.99 <0.001 1.01 0.98–1.04 0.640 1.00 1.00–1.00 <0.001
Median gross rent in US dollars per $1,000 0.61 0.47–0.80 <0.001 2.38 1.48–3.83 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.00 <0.001
Median monthly mortgage in US dollars per $1,000 0.87 0.81–0.93 <0.001 1.01 0.88–1.15 0.917 1.00 1.00–1.00 <0.001
% Owner-occupied housing units per 10% increase 1.00 0.98–1.02 0.906 1.23 1.18–1.28 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.00 0.603
% Households with more than 1 person per room per 10% increase 0.96 0.87–1.07 0.466 0.43 0.34–0.55 <0.001 1.00 0.99–1.01 0.532
% Households without a motor vehicle per 10% increase 0.96 0.93–0.99 0.020 0.66 0.59–0.75 <0.001 1.00 1.00–1.00 0.772
% Occupied housing units without complete plumbing per 10% increase 0.98 0.85–1.14 0.802 0.15 0.08–0.26 <0.001 1.02 1.01–1.03 0.004

sHR = subdistribution hazard ratio, CI = confidence interval

*

Controlled for age, race, gender, insurance status, etiology of cirrhosis (HCV, HBV, alcohol, MASH, cholestasis), decompensation status (ascites, HE, esophageal varices, variceal bleeding, spontaneous bacterial peritonitis, hepatorenal syndrome, hepatopulmonary syndrome), HCC, MELD-Na, Charlson Comorbidity Index

**

A new model was constructed for each individual SDOH covariate and this table is an aggregate of multiple models. ADI and each individual SDOH risk factor was included into the model separately while adjusting for clinicodemographic covariates.