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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 27.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer. 2010 Apr 1;116(7):1801–1809. doi: 10.1002/cncr.24936

Table 1.

Patient Characteristics

Transplant No Transplant Total P
No. % No. % No. %
175 37.9 287 62.1 462
Sex .957
 Male 137 79.7 228 79.4 365 79.5
 Female 35 20.3 59 20.6 94 20.5
Ethnicity <.0001
 White 97 57.1 87 30.4 184 40.4
 Black 19 11.2 44 15.4 63 13.8
 Hispanic 35 20.6 104 36.4 139 30.5
 Asian 17 10.0 30 10.5 47 10.3
 Other 2 1.2 21 7.3 23 5.0
Age, y <.0001
 ≤52 50 29.1 65 22.9 115 25.2
 53–60 59 34.3 70 24.6 129 28.3
 61–67 52 30.2 58 20.4 110 24.1
 ≥68 11 6.4 91 32.0 102 22.4
Child-Pugh class <.0001
 A 77 45.6 82 29.2 159 35.3
 B 54 32.0 83 29.5 137 30.4
 C 38 22.5 116 41.3 154 34.2
Milan criteria <.0001
 No 39 28.9 183 76.9 222 59.5
 Yes 96 71.1 55 23.1 151 40.5
Maximum AFP <.0001
 ≤49 86 57.0 23 8.0 109 24.9
 50–774 40 26.5 69 24.1 109 24.9
 775–6666 14 9.3 96 33.6 110 25.2
 ≥6667 11 7.3 98 34.3 109 24.9
AJCC stage <.0001
 1 68 44.7 45 16.1 113 26.2
 2 62 40.8 71 25.4 133 30.9
 3 22 14.5 103 36.9 125 29.0
 4 0 0.0 60 21.5 60 13.9
Tumor size <.0001
 ≤2.6 cm 58 43.9 28 14.4 86 26.3
 2.7–4 cm 37 28.0 42 21.5 79 24.2
 4.1–6.5 cm 32 24.2 39 20.0 71 21.7
 ≥6.6 cm 5 3.8 86 44.1 91 27.8
Median household income, $ .0005
 ≤27,776 31 18.5 81 28.9 112 25.0
 27,777–40,497 34 20.2 80 28.6 114 25.4
 40,498–60,075 45 26.8 65 23.2 110 24.6
 ≥60,076 58 34.5 54 19.3 112 25.0
Insurance <.0001
 Private 143 83.1 127 47.9 270 61.8
 Medicare 17 9.9 69 26.0 86 19.7
 Medicaid 12 7.0 69 26.0 81 18.5
HCV .0002
 No 48 28.1 129 45.4 177 38.9
 Yes 123 71.9 155 54.6 278 61.1
HBV .318
 No 142 83.0 225 79.2 367 80.7
 Yes 29 17.0 59 20.8 88 19.3
NASH .272
 No 139 81.3 242 85.2 381 83.7
 Yes 32 18.7 42 14.8 74 16.3
DM .698
 No 120 70.2 193 68.7 313 69.1
 Yes 51 29.8 88 31.3 139 30.7
HTN .757
 No 104 61.5 170 60.1 274 60.6
 Yes 65 38.5 113 39.9 178 39.4
CAD .469
 No 160 93.0 224 91.1 384 91.9
 Yes 12 7.0 22 8.9 34 8.1
Tobacco .004
 No 61 37.4 114 52.3 175 45.9
 Yes 102 62.6 104 47.7 206 54.1

AFP indicates alpha fetoprotein; AJCC, American Joint Committee on Cancer; HCV, hepatitis C virus; HBV, hepatitis B virus; NASH, nonalcoholic steatohepatitis; DM, diabetes mellitus; HTN, hypertension; CAD, coronary artery disease.