. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Nov 1.

Published in final edited form as: Kidney Int. 2009 Feb 11;75(10):1079–1087. doi: 10.1038/ki.2009.11

Table 1.

Living kidney donor characteristics

		Medically disqualified for donation

	Approved donors	All	Isolated ‘low GFR’	Incomplete donor evaluation
n (%)	1014 (68.4)	317 (21.4)	43 (2.9)	150 (10.1)
Age (years)	38.5 ± 10.4	43.9 ± 12.0^*	51.6 ± 10.4^*	40.8 ± 10.5^*
Age >45 year old, n (%)	284 (28.0)	155 (48.9)^*	32 (74.4)^*	51 (34.0)
Female gender	569 (56.1)	194 (61.2)	27 (62.8)	88 (58.7)
African American	113 (11.1)	48 (15.1)	4 (9.3)	18 (12.0)
Evaluations prior to 1990	300 (29.6)	84 (26.5)	1 (2.3)^*	17 (11.3)^*
Body surface area	1.86 ± 0.23	1.88 ± 0.20	1.92 ± 0.23	1.89 ± 0.23
Body mass index (kg/m²)	26.2 ± 4.2	28.0 ± 5.0^*	28.4 ± 5.0^*	27.5 ± 4.8^*
mGFR/BSA (ml/min per 1.73m²)	107.6 ± 16.8	98.8 ± 22.0^*	73.4 ± 4.9^*	107.6 ± 17.1
mGFR (ml/min)	115.4 ± 21.8	107.4 ± 26.0^*	81.5 ± 11.7^*	116.9±20.4

BSA, body surface area; mGFR, measured glomerular filtration rate.

P<0.05 compared with approved donors.