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Age-based variation in liver wait-listing ratios by era, 1999–2006. Age-based variation in wait-listing rates in the pre-MELD and MELD eras was evident. For acute liver failure, young patients had two- to three-fold higher wait-listing rates than middle-aged adults, and patients older than 60 had the lowest LWRs, independent of diagnosis. For chronic liver disease, the degree of age-based variation was more compressed, but younger adults again had the highest wait-listing rates.
