Table 10. Recipient and donor baseline characteristics by treatment (n=4,669) .
MELD - Model for End Stage Liver Disease
TX - Transplant
LD - Living Donor
DCD - Donation after Circulatory Death
NON DCD - Not Donation after Circulatory Death
DRI - Disease Risk Index
| Characteristics | No Treatment (n=2,257) | Single Therapy (n=1,790) | Combination Therapy (n=6,22) | p-value |
| % | % | % | ||
| Recipient Variables | ||||
| Age | < 0.001 | |||
| 19-35 | 0.3 | 0.3 | 0.3 | |
| 36-40 | 0.3 | 0.1 | 0.3 | |
| 41-55 | 19.4 | 17.0 | 15.8 | |
| 56-70 | 73.6 | 73.6 | 71.9 | |
| >=71 | 6.4 | 9.1 | 11.7 | |
| Gender | 0.223 | |||
| Male | 73.8 | 71.3 | 72.4 | |
| Female | 26.2 | 28.7 | 27.7 | |
| Race | 0.142 | |||
| White | 64.6 | 64.6 | 64.2 | |
| Black | 9.6 | 9.3 | 8.0 | |
| Hispanic | 17.9 | 16.4 | 16.6 | |
| Other | 8.0 | 9.7 | 11.3 | |
| BMI | 0.093 | |||
| 10-18.5 | 0.8 | 1.6 | 0.6 | |
| 18.5-25 | 24.5 | 26.8 | 27.2 | |
| 25-30 | 40.1 | 37.3 | 39.6 | |
| >30 | 34.6 | 34.4 | 32.6 | |
| Missing | 0.0 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
| Blood Type | 0.065 | |||
| A | 37.9 | 36.8 | 35.5 | |
| B | 11.7 | 14.2 | 16.4 | |
| AB | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.0 | |
| O | 46.7 | 45.5 | 44.1 | |
| Calculated MELD | 0.035 | |||
| <10 | 27.9 | 31.4 | 29.9 | |
| 10-14 | 37.9 | 38.9 | 38.4 | |
| 15-19 | 18.9 | 17.0 | 19.1 | |
| 20-24 | 8.4 | 7.0 | 7.4 | |
| 25-29 | 2.3 | 2.3 | 1.3 | |
| 30-34 | 2.0 | 12 | 1.1 | |
| 35-39 | 1.0 | 0.7 | 0.8 | |
| >=40 | 0.9 | 0.4 | 0.3 | |
| Unknown | 0.7 | 1.0 | 1.6 | |
| College Degree | 39.1 | 40.0 | 37.5 | 0.529 |
| Employed | 8.4 | 7.9 | 7.7 | 0.791 |
| Diabetes | 35.2 | 34.2 | 32.6 | 0.460 |
| Peripheral Vascular Disease | 1.0 | 1.4 | 1.3 | 0.450 |
| Partial/split liver | 2.3 | 1.8 | 3.9 | 0.015 |
| Liver and Kidney TX | 3.8 | 2.7 | 2.4 | 0.089 |
| Primary Insurance Types | < 0.001 | |||
| Public | 63.9 | 78.3 | 80.2 | |
| Private | 32.7 | 17.3 | 16.2 | |
| Other | 3.3 | 4.4 | 3.5 | |
| Donor Variables | ||||
| Donor Age | 0.151 | |||
| 0-18 | 7.4 | 8.5 | 8.4 | |
| 19-35 | 29.4 | 27.3 | 28.6 | |
| 36-50 | 26.2 | 25.5 | 29.6 | |
| >=51 | 36.9 | 38.7 | 33.4 | |
| Donor Race | 0.607 | |||
| White | 64.4 | 65.9 | 66.1 | |
| Black | 16.0 | 16.5 | 17.4 | |
| Hispanic | 15.0 | 13.5 | 12.4 | |
| Other | 4.5 | 4.1 | 4.2 | |
| Donor Diabetes | 13.1 | 11.8 | 12.1 | 0.423 |
| Donor Types | 0.006 | |||
| LD | 0.9 | 0.5 | 1.9 | |
| DCD | 5.5 | 5.4 | 6.9 | |
| NON-DCD | 93.6 | 94.2 | 91.2 | |
| Organ Share Type | 0.037 | |||
| Local | 78.0 | 81.3 | 81.8 | |
| Region | 18.5 | 16.0 | 14.6 | |
| Nation | 3.5 | 2.7 | 3.5 | |
| DRI | 0.451 | |||
| 0.0<=DRI<1.0 | 0.2 | 0.1 | 0.0 | |
| 1.0<=DRI<1.5 | 30.5 | 30.5 | 32.0 | |
| 1.5<=DRI<2.0 | 35.0 | 34.6 | 30.6 | |
| 2.0<=DRI<2.5 | 19.2 | 21.0 | 22.4 | |
| DRI>=2.5 | 6.7 | 6.8 | 6.9 | |
| Unknown | 8.4 | 7.1 | 8.2 | |
| Cold Ischemic Time (Hours) | 0.352 | |||
| 0-6 | 56.1 | 56.9 | 56.9 | |
| 7-12 | 38.4 | 38.3 | 36.3 | |
| >=13 | 1.8 | 2.1 | 2.9 | |
| Missing | 3.7 | 2.7 | 3.9 | |