TABLE 2.
Outcomes by steady vs. declining (“drop-2”) adherence groups of 137 patients with adequate monitor data
| Outcomes | Declining (n=23) |
Steady (n=114) |
P |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rejection | |||
| Late acute rejectionsa | 8 | 24 | 0.156 |
| Late acute rejection rate | 9.6 (±2.5) | 2.7 (±0.5) | <0.001 |
| Chronic rejection | 8 | 23 | 0.127 |
| Chronic rejection rate | 5.1 (±1.8) | 2.1 (±0.4) | 0.034 |
| Graft loss | |||
| Graft loss before death | 11 | 21 | 0.002 |
| Graft loss before death rate | 7.0 (±2.1) | 2.0 (±0.4) | <0.001 |
| Death | |||
| Late death | 11 | 30 | 0.040 |
| Late death rate | 4.9 (±1.5) | 2.6 (±0.5) | 0.066 |
| Late death with graft function | 6 | 20 | 0.341 |
| Any event | |||
| No events before death | 11 | 77 | 0.072 |
| No events including death | 6 | 61 | 0.016 |
a
Late events occurred 90 d or more after discharge from hospital at transplantation, and are reported two ways: by number and as an event rate (± standard error) per 100 patient-years.