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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Mar 10.
Published in final edited form as: Liver Transpl. 2015 Feb 10;21(3):308–313. doi: 10.1002/lt.24063

TABLE 2.

Effect of Serum Sodium on the LT Survival Benefit (Interaction Between LT and Sodium by the MELD Category)

MELD
Category		 Change in HR per 5-Units
Increase in Serum Sodium		 P Value
6–11 −2.7% 0.81
12–19 +14.5% 0.001
20–29 +25.3% <0.001
30–40 +33.7% <0.001