Table 2. Baseline characteristics transplanted participants.

	Transplanted organ	Disease before transplantation	Time since Tx (years)*1	Gender (M/F)	Age (years)	BMI (kg/m2)	Peak load (W)	VO2max (ml/min/kg)	CPET criterion*2	Quadriceps strength (% pred.)	Grip strength (%pred.)
1	Lung	IPF	19	M	56	22.5	210	36.8	Good	84	88
2	Lung	PAH	7	F	44	24.1	220	32.7	Good	111	113
3	Heart	Cong. AV-block	3	F	22	21.8	198	35.0	Good	65	133
4	Heart	HCM	4	F	57	22.7	175	28.0	Good	94	104
5	Kidney, test 1	IgA nephropathy	1	M	35	25.0	215	27.6	-	85	116
	test 2 ±					25.0	240	42.5	Good	-	-
6	Kidney	IgA nephropathy	2	F	28	29.8	212	30.1	Fair	58	109
7	Liver	Tyrosinemia type 1	22	M	23	24.0	280	45.2	Good	79	129
8	Liver	PSC	6	F	52	22.1	148	36.9	Excellent	75	108
9	Liver	PSC	2	M	44	25.3	308	36.6	Fair	102	83
10	Liver, test 1	PSC	3	M	43	24.1	248	27.7	-	77	94
	test 2 +					22.9	300	39.0	Good	-	-
11	Stem cell	CML	8	M	31	24.4	305	44.4	Good	71	98
12	Small-bowel	Bowel resection after thrombosis	2	F	54	24.3	134	26.8	Fair	81	91
	Median		3.5	6M/ 6F	43.5	24.1	212	36.7	-	80	106
	IQR		2.0–7.75		28.8–53.5	22.6–25.1	175–300	30.8–41.6	-	72–92	92–115

^± Second test due to abortion of Test 1 due to high blood pressure; the second test was an Astrand cycle ergometer test.

⁺ Second test due to insufficient performance for Test 1; Test 2 performed ten weeks after Test 1. IQR: inter quartile range. IPF: idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, PAH: pulmonary arterial hypertension, HCM: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, PSC: primary sclerosing cholangitis, CML: chronic myeloid leukemia. Tx: transplantation.

*¹Time since Tx in years on date of departure to Tanzania.

*² CPET criterion: cardio pulmonary exercise testing, criterion according to the American College of Sports Medicine [11].