. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.

Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2013 Jun 3;13(8):2091–2095. doi: 10.1111/ajt.12300

Table 1.

Study Population of Kidney Transplant Recipients, Stratified by Frailty.

	No frailty (n=311)	Frailty (n=72)	P value

Recipient factors
Age (Mean [SD])	53.1 [13.8]	54.9 [14.3]	0.3
African American race (%)	39.2	37.5	0.9
Female sex (%)	42.1	29.2	0.046
Body mass index (kg/m²) (Mean [SD])	27.4 [5.4]	27.4 [5.6]	0.9
Diabetes (%)	15.8	23.6	0.12
Heart disease (%)	14.8	13.9	1.0
Time on dialysis (years) (Mean [SD])	4.4 [5.7]	4.5 [5.7]	0.9
Transplant factors
Live donor (%)	48.6	38.9	0.2
Donor age (Mean [SD])	41.0 [15.4]	42.7 [14.6]	0.4
Received induction therapy (%)	92.9	90.3	0.5
0 HLA mismatches (%)	4.8	5.6	0.8
Length of stay for the transplant (in days) (Median [IQR])	9.0 [7.0]	9.5 [7.5]	0.9

SD=Standard Deviation; IQR=Interquartile Range