Table 2.
Characteristics of Enrolled Patients at 5 and 10 Years Post HT
| Percentage or mean + SD |
|||
|---|---|---|---|
| 5 Years Post HT | 10 Years Post | ||
| Characteristics | (n=199) | HT (n=98) | p value† |
| Demographics | |||
| Age at transplant, years | 55.2±10.0 | 52.7±9.9 | 0.0441 |
| Gender | 0.5674 | ||
| Male | 80 | 78 | |
| Female | 20 | 22 | |
| Race/ethnicity | 0.2717 | ||
| White | 92 | 87 | |
| Black | 7 | 8 | |
| Hispanic | 0 | 4 | |
| Other | 1 | 1 | |
| Marital status | 0.5031 | ||
| Married | 77 | 79 | |
| Divorced/separated | 13 | 10 | |
| Single | 6 | 9 | |
| Widowed | 5 | 2 | |
| Education | 0.3062 | ||
| < High school | 39 | 45 | |
| High school or above | 61 | 55 | |
| Years of education | 14.2±2.7 | 13.9±2.6 | 0.2982 |
| Clinical characteristics | |||
| UNOS 1A or IB at transplant | 62 | 41 | 0.0034 |
| NYHA classa | 1.32±0.48 | 1.40±0.55 | 0.2138 |
| Comorbidities (%) | |||
| Hypertension | 85 | 91 | 0.1616 |
| Hyperlipidemia | 74 | 85 | 0.0340 |
| Renal dysfunction | 39 | 41 | 0.7612 |
| Cancer (including skin cancer) | 24 | 49 | <.0001 |
| Diabetes | 32 | 23 | 0.1222 |
| Orthopedic problems | 22 | 31 | 0.0843 |
| Psychological problems | 26 | 18 | 0.1364 |
| Gastrointestinal problems | 23 | 17 | 0.1818 |
| Gout | 19 | 17 | 0.6452 |
| Genitourinary problems | 17 | 11 | 0.2275 |
| Rejection | 75 | 86 | 0.0405 |
| Infection | 46 | 45 | 0.8283 |
| CAD | 38 | 58 | 0.0008 |
UNOS, United Network for Organ Sharing; CAD, coronary artery disease
a
New York Heart Association functional class between 5 and 10 years after transplant.
†
Two-sample t-test for continuous variables and Chi-square test for categorical variables. Patients at 5 and 10 years post HT were two independent cohorts.