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. 2016 Sep 1;2016:9709430. doi: 10.1155/2016/9709430

Table 1.

Descriptive statistics by recipient donor obesity (n = 51,556).

Covariates Nonobese R Obese R p ∗∗
Nonobese D (n = 26162) Obese D (n = 8055) Nonobese D (n = 12295) Obese D (n = 5044)
N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD) N (%) or mean (SD)
Male recipient 17707 (68%) 6177 (77%) 7967 (65%) 3661 (73%) <0.001

Recipient age 53.4 (10.6) 54.0 (10.0) 54.3 (8.7) 54.7 (8.3) <0.001

Recipient race <0.001
 White 18395 (70%) 5887 (73%) 9090 (74%) 3928 (78%)
 Black 2549 (10%) 794 (10%) 1096 (9%) 408 (8%)
 Other 5218 (20%) 1374 (17%) 2109 (17%) 708 (14%)

Etiology <0.001
 Viral 7439 (28%) 2183 (27%) 3443 (28%) 1297 (26%)
 Cryptogenic 1446 (6%) 455 (6%) 946 (8%) 398 (8%)
 Autoimmune 3276 (13%) 881 (11%) 864 (7%) 305 (6%)
 NASH 811 (3%) 257 (3%) 1258 (10%) 587 (12%)
 Alcoholic 4442 (17%) 1575 (20%) 2093 (17%) 904 (18%)
 HCC 4897 (19%) 1681 (21%) 2338 (19%) 1072 (21%)
 Other 3850 (15%) 1021 (13%) 1351 (11%) 481 (10%)

Recipient diabetes 5565 (22%) 1772 (22%) 3671 (30%) 1526 (31%) <0.001

Acute rejection before discharge 1468 (6%) 484 (7%) 670 (6%) 286 (6%) 0.588

PVT at transplantation 1817 (7%) 533 (7%) 1011 (8%) 396 (8%) <0.001

MELD score at LT 21.4 (10.1) 21.2 (10.0) 22.3 (10.2) 21.5 (9.9) <0.001

Recipient BMI 24.8 (3.2) 25.3 (3.0) 34.5 (3.8) 34.7 (3.8) <0.001

Male donor 15721 (60%) 4006 (50%) 7929 (64%) 2766 (55%) <0.001

Donor age 40.4 (17.7) 45.5 (14.7) 41.2 (17.3) 45.7 (14.8) <0.001
Donor race <0.001
 White 17356 (66%) 5160 (64%) 8409 (68%) 3304 (66%)
 Black 4159 (16%) 1634 (20%) 1964 (16%) 1052 (21%)
 Other 4647 (18%) 1261 (16%) 1922 (16%) 688 (14%)

Donor diabetes 1976 (8%) 1440 (18%) 1002 (8%) 990 (20%) <0.001

Donor hypertension 7507 (29%) 4013 (50%) 3723 (30%) 2591 (52%) <0.001

Donor CMV positive 17273 (66%) 5416 (67%) 8043 (66%) 3314 (66%) 0.062

Donor HBV positive 1492 (6%) 444 (6%) 621 (5%) 250 (5%) 0.023

Donor HCV positive 920 (4%) 210 (3%) 473 (4%) 107 (2%) <0.001

Cold ischemia time 7.0 (3.4) 7.1 (3.4) 7.2 (3.5) 7.2 (3.5) <0.001

Donor creatinine 1.4 (1.5) 1.7 (1.8) 1.5 (1.5) 1.8 (1.8) <0.001

Donor BMI 24.2 (3.3) 34.9 (4.9) 24.6 (3.2) 35.4 (5.3) <0.001

Death after LT 6470 (25%) 1913 (24%) 2836 (23%) 1166 (23%) 0.001
 Death within 1–30 days 848 (3%) 253 (3%) 440 (4%) 218 (4%) <0.001
 Death past 30 days, within 1 year 2175 (9%) 622 (8%) 931 (8%) 372 (8%) 0.029
 Death past 1 year, within 5 years 2631 (11%) 815 (11%) 1114 (10%) 461 (10%) 0.004

Retransplant 1180 (5%) 326 (4%) 571 (5%) 214 (4%) 0.179

Length of hospital stay post-LT 16.7 (22.5) 16.1 (21.8) 16.8 (24.2) 16.1 (20.4) 0.046

Survival time 1275 (1049) 1157 (991) 1235 (1034) 1137 (995) <0.001

Obesity defined as BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2.  ∗∗Chi-square test for categorical variables and ANOVA for continuous variables.