Table 1.
Subject characteristics of patients on the waiting list for a kidney transplant*.
| Kidney alone KA1 |
Repeat kidney KA2 |
Kidney after lung KALu |
Kidney after heart KAH |
Kidney after liver KALi |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Number | 264,558 | 47,072 | 362 | 1,029 | 2,237 |
| Age at Listing - Years (SD) | 49 (13) | 45 (13) | 51 (13) | 58 (10) | 54 (10) |
| Gender | |||||
| Male | 59.6% | 59.3% | 47.0% | 81.4% | 65.7% |
| Female | 40.4% | 40.7% | 53.0% | 18.6% | 34.3% |
| Race | |||||
| White | 49.1% | 55.5% | 93.1% | 79.8% | 72.1% |
| Black | 28.8% | 27.0% | 3.9% | 14.0% | 10.4% |
| Other | 22.2% | 17.5% | 3.0% | 6.2% | 17.5% |
| Diabetes | 40.1% | 23.8% | 25.7% | 32.4% | 36.3% |
| Chronic Dialysis Treatment | 77.5% | 72.6% | 56.4% | 62.1% | 63.4% |
| Missing | 1.7% | 3.2% | 1.1% | 1.8% | 2.6% |
| Panel Reactive Antibody (SD) | 9.6 (23.4) | 28.2 (37.2) | 4.8 (14.2) | 6.9 (18.4) | 12.1 (24.9) |
| Missing | 8.1% | 7.3% | 10.2% | 11.3% | 16.7% |
| Cause of End Stage Renal Disease | |||||
| Diabetes | 32.7% | 11.3% | 3.3% | 7.6% | 11.0% |
| Hypertensive Nephrosclerosis | 18.5% | 11.0% | 3.6% | 5.3% | 4.0% |
| Glomerulonephritis | 5.7% | 5.6% | 1.4% | 1.0% | 3.4% |
| Polycystic Kidney | 7.3% | 5.9% | 0.6% | 1.0% | 1.7% |
| Reflux Nephropathy / Congenital Abnormality | 1.3% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 0.1% | 0.0% |
| Calcineurin Inhibitor Nephrotoxicity | 0.0% | 0.2% | 50.8% | 45.2% | 23.6% |
| Retransplantation / Graft Failure | 0.0% | 38.3% | 0.0% | 0.0% | 0.0% |
| Other | 22.3% | 17.4% | 12.7% | 9.5% | 16.7% |
| Other/Unspecified by UNOS | 12.2% | 8.8% | 27.6% | 30.3% | 39.6% |
| 1st Transplant to kidney wait list - Years (SD) | *** | 6.2 (4.4) | 6.5 (3.1) | 7.1 (4.3) | 6.1 (4.0) |
| Survival Status | |||||
| Waiting | 33.2% | 57.2% | 21.0% | 22.1% | 36.6% |
| Transplanted | 50.2% | 30.3% | 47.0% | 49.8% | 30.8% |
| Death or Too Sick for Transplant | 16.6% | 12.5% | 32.0% | 28.1% | 32.6% |
| Kidney listing to death or delisting - Years (SD) | 2.0 (2.0) | 2.1 (2.3) | 1.0 (1.1) | 1.4 (1.5) | 1.0 (1.4) |
| Dialysis patients | 2.0 (2.0) | 2.1 (2.2) | 0.9 (1.1) | 1.5 (1.5) | 1.0 (1.3) |
| Non-dialysis patients | 2.3 (2.2) | 2.2 (2.3) | 1.1 (1.3) | 1.2 (1.7) | 1.0 (1.6) |
| % death or delisting for those listed prior to needing dialysis | 12.5% | 11.4% | 22.1% | 20.8% | 29.2% |
| % death or delisting for those on dialysis prior to listing | 16.9% | 12.5% | 38.2% | 30.8% | 33.0% |
*
all values significantly different between groups (p < 0.001)