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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Oct 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2008 Aug 22;8(10):2062–2070. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02361.x

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of live kidney donors (n=9319) at the time of transplantation in the complete cohort

Donor attribute Number

Age (s.d.) 40.3 years (11.0)

Female (%) 5550 (59.6)

Race (%)
 White 6395 (68.6)
 Black 1325 (14.2)
 Hispanic 1165 (12.5)
 Asian 310 (3.3)
 Other 124 (1.3)

US Citizen (%) 8859 (95.1)

Education (%)
 Grade school or less 160 (1.7)
 High school 2263 (24.3)
 Attended college/technical school 1883 (20.2)
 Associate/Bachelor degree 1549 (16.6)
 Graduate degree 615 (6.6)
 Unknown 2849 (30.6)

Relation to recipient (%)
 Full sibling 2521 (27.1)
 Child 1751 (18.8)
 Spouse 1174 (12.6)
 Other biological 692 (7.4)
 Parent 770 (8.3)
 Non-biological, unrelated: Anonymous Donation 123 (1.3)
 Half-sibling 107 (1.2)
 Life partner 61 (0.7)
 Non-biological, unrelated: Paired Exchange 45 (0.5)
 Twin 21 (0.3)
 Non-biological, live/Deceased Donor Exchange 13 (0.1)
 Unrelated, directed donation 2039 (21.9)