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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Sep 14.
Published in final edited form as: Transplantation. 2014 Feb 15;97(3):316–324. doi: 10.1097/01.TP.0000436731.23554.5e

TABLE 2.

Cumulative frequencies of medical diagnoses at 5 years after donation among Medicare-insured and privately insured living kidney donors

Medicare-insured living donors Privately insured living donors
Hypertension (any) 65.8 (62.0–69.2)   17.8 (15.8–20.2)
Benign hypertension 38.3 (34.1–42.2)   9.7 (7.8–11.6)
Malignant hypertension 5.0 (3.2–6.9)     0.9 (0.0–28.9)
Unspecified hypertension 53.3 (49.1–57.2) 10.8 (8.8–12.8)
Diabetes mellitus (any, including unspecified) 18.5 (15.0–21.8) 4.0 (2.7–5.3)
Type 1 diabetes 1.9 (0.7–3.1)     0.5 (0.0–19.2)
Type 2 diabetes 18.5 (15.0–21.8) 3.3 (2.1–4.4)
Chronic kidney disease 21.8 (18.2–25.2) 5.2 (3.7–6.8)
Proteinuria 4.8 (2.9–6.7)   2.3 (1.3–3.3)

Values are given as percentages (95% confidence interval).