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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Oct 10.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2008 Dec;8(12):2636–2646. doi: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2008.02422.x

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Kaplan-Meier Estimates of 5-Year Graft Survival Among “Ineligible” Patients Stratified by Income Level and Era of Transplantation.

A) Patients transplanted after 1996 but ineligible for lifetime-coverage (Cohort 3).

B) Patients transplanted too soon to qualify for Medicare's lifetime coverage AND who were ineligible for lifetime coverage (Cohort 4).

The lifetime-coverage “ineligible” patients in the highest income quartile (Q4) shown in blue had better 5-year graft survival compared to those in the lowest quartile (Q1) shown in black whether they were in the early era, P<0.001, or later era, P=0.004.