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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Aug 3.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2016 Jan;16(Suppl 2):11–46. doi: 10.1111/ajt.13666

Table KI 1.2. Characteristics of adults on the kidney transplant waiting list on December 31, 2004 and December 31, 2014.

Candidates waiting for transplant on December 31, 2004, and December 31, 2014, regardless of first listing date; active/inactive status is on this date, and multiple listings are not counted.

2004 2014

N % N %
Age 18–34 7,422 12.9 9,177 9.3
35–49 18,534 32.2 25,558 25.8
50–64 23,711 41.1 43,282 43.7
≥65 7,956 13.8 20,939 21.2

Sex Female 24,306 42.2 39,754 40.2
Male 33,317 57.8 59,202 59.8

Race White 22,908 39.8 35,942 36.3
Black 20,479 35.5 34,007 34.4
Hispanic 9,288 16.1 19,222 19.4
Asian 4,125 7.2 8,242 8.3
Other/unknown 823 1.4 1,543 1.6

Citizenship US citizen 54,323 94.3 90,523 91.5
Non-citizen resident 2,699 4.7 2,762 2.8
Non-citizen non-resident 492 0.9 361 0.4
Other/unknown 109 0.2 5,310 5.4

Primary diagnosis Diabetes 17,136 29.7 35,138 35.5
Hypertension 14,338 24.9 24,117 24.4
GN 8,994 15.6 13,825 14.0
CKD 4,680 8.1 7,998 8.1
Other 12,475 21.6 17,878 18.1

Diabetes (any source) 21,538 37.4 44,868 45.3

Kidney transplant history First transplant 47,741 82.9 85,288 86.2
Retransplant 9,882 17.1 13,668 13.8

Blood type A 16,123 28.0 28,340 28.6
B 9,624 16.7 16,035 16.2
AB 1,559 2.7 2,796 2.8
O 30,317 52.6 51,785 52.3

PRA/CPRA < 1% 28,649 49.7 60,469 61.1
1–< 20% 11,225 19.5 8,410 8.5
20–< 80% 8,378 14.5 14,760 14.9
80–< 98% 4,215 7.3 6,013 6.1
98–100% 3,677 6.4 8,590 8.7
Unknown 1,479 2.6 714 0.7

Waiting time < 1 year 19,760 34.3 27,068 27.4
1–< 2 years 12,911 22.4 21,811 22.0
2–< 3 years 8,869 15.4 16,139 16.3
3–< 4 years 5,909 10.3 11,336 11.5
   4–< 5 years 3,878 6.7 8,066 8.2
≥ 5 years 6,296 10.9 14,536 14.7

Will accept ECD or KDPI >85% kidney 24,754 43.0 50,925 51.5

Multi-organ Kidney alone 54,977 95.4 95,953 97.0
Kidney-pancreas 2,328 4.0 1,979 2.0
Kidney-liver 259 0.4 844 0.9
Kidney-heart 54 0.1 165 0.2
Other 5 0.0 15 0.0

All candidates 57,623 100.0 98,956 100.0

CKD, cystic kidney disease; GN, glomerulonephritis; KDPI, kidney donor profile index.