Table 3.

Comparison of mean, bias, and t-test results between the live liver donor transplant (LDLT) recipients and cadaveric donor transplant (CDLT) recipients before and after propensity score matching of the variables of interest

		Mean		% bias	t-test
Variables	unmatched matched	LDLT	CDLT		t	p
Patient age	unmatched matched	52.7 55.3	56.7 55.4	−37 −1.2	−3.6 −0.09	0.002 0.932
Patient gender	unmatched matched	0.47 0.5	0.67 0.52	−42.1 −4.8	−3.87 −0.3	<0.001 0.762
MELD score	unmatched matched	13.1 13.7	19.3 13.4	−105.7 5.5	−8.72 0.46	<0.001 0.646
Pre-transplant serum creatinine	unmatched matched	0.99 1.001	1.28 0.99	−40.2 1	−3.08 0.11	0.002 0.912
Pre-existing diabetes mellitus	unmatched matched	0.28 0.29	0.32 0.33	−8.4 −10.1	−0.75 −0.65	0.457 0.514