Table 1.
Demographics of transplant recipients.
| Total Hepatitis C Transplants | Rapid Fibrosers | Slow Fibrosers | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| P valuea | ||||||
| N (Liver transplants secondary to hepatitis C) | 476 | 52 | 61 | |||
| Percent of hepatitis C transplant population | 100 | 10.92 | 12.81 | |||
| Gender | ||||||
| N (%) | ||||||
| Female | 99 (20.80) | 14 (26.92) | 7 (11.48) | .0513 | ||
| Male | 377 (79.20) | 38 (73.08) | 54 (88.52) | |||
| Mean age ± SD (yr.) | 51.79 ± 7.67 | 49.75 ± 8.20 | 52.79 ± 7.33 | .0399 | ||
| Race | ||||||
| N (%) | ||||||
| Black | 80 (16.81) | 11 (21.15) | 11 (18.03) | .8894b | ||
| Hispanic | 28 (5.88) | 2 (3.85) | 2 (3.28) | |||
| White | 343 (72.06) | 37 (71.15) | 46 (75.41) | |||
| Other | 25 (5.25) | 2 (3.85) | 2 (3.28) | |||
| Co-existing alcoholic cirrhosis | 135 (28.36) | 13 (25) | 23 (37.70) | .1623 | ||
| Co-existing hepatitis B | 7 (1.47) | 1 (1.92) | 0 (0) | .4602 |
a
P has been calculated between rapid and slow fibrosers.
b
P has been calculated between rapid and slow fibrosers only for known recipient race.
Mean age was compared using a student t-test; the remaining data was compared using Chi Square or Fisher's exact test.