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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 4.1. Characteristics of adult kidney transplant recipients, 2014.

Adult kidney transplant recipients, including retransplants.

Deceased Living All

N % N % N %
Age 18–34 1,202 10.2 1,035 19.6 2,237 13.1
35–49 3,141 26.6 1,590 30.1 4,731 27.7
50–64 4,902 41.5 1,913 36.2 6,815 39.9
≥65 2,562 21.7 753 14.2 3,315 19.4

Sex Female 4,606 39.0 1,970 37.2 6,576 38.5
Male 7,201 61.0 3,321 62.8 10,522 61.5

Race White 5,144 43.6 3,523 66.6 8,667 50.7
Black 3,660 31.0 690 13.0 4,350 25.4
Hispanic 1,940 16.4 743 14.0 2,683 15.7
Asian 876 7.4 294 5.6 1,170 6.8
Other/unknown 187 1.6 41 0.8 228 1.3

Primary diagnosis Diabetes 3,741 31.7 1,156 21.8 4,897 28.6
Hypertension 2,844 24.1 892 16.9 3,736 21.9
GN 1,887 16.0 1,326 25.1 3,213 18.8
CKD 1,201 10.2 868 16.4 2,069 12.1
Other 2,134 18.1 1,049 19.8 3,183 18.6

Blood type A 4,339 36.7 2,042 38.6 6,381 37.3
B 1,546 13.1 729 13.8 2,275 13.3
AB 580 4.9 213 4.0 793 4.6
O 5,342 45.2 2,307 43.6 7,649 44.7

PRA/CPRA < 1% 7,284 61.7 3,843 72.6 11,127 65.1
1–< 20% 941 8.0 431 8.1 1,372 8.0
20–< 80% 1,734 14.7 718 13.6 2,452 14.3
80–< 98% 1,337 11.3 195 3.7 1,532 9.0
98–100% 510 4.3 95 1.8 605 3.5
Unknown 1 0.0 9 0.2 10 0.1

History of RRT Preemptive transplant 1,246 10.6 1,670 31.6 2,916 17.1
< 1 year 926 7.8 1,181 22.3 2,107 12.3
< 3 years 2,485 21.0 1,285 24.3 3,770 22.0
< 5 years 2,505 21.2 384 7.3 2,889 16.9
≥5 years 4,645 39.3 771 14.6 5,416 31.7

Insurance Private 2,883 24.4 2,990 56.5 5,873 34.3
Medicare 8,056 68.2 1,962 37.1 10,018 58.6
Medicaid 536 4.5 199 3.8 735 4.3
Other government 189 1.6 59 1.1 248 1.5
Other/unknown 143 1.2 81 1.5 224 1.3

HLA mismatches 0 878 7.4 357 6.7 1,235 7.2
1 107 0.9 261 4.9 368 2.2
2 535 4.5 722 13.6 1,257 7.4
3 1,490 12.6 1,230 23.2 2,720 15.9
4 3,170 26.8 889 16.8 4,059 23.7
5 3,674 31.1 1,137 21.5 4,811 28.1
6 1,889 16.0 599 11.3 2,488 14.6
Unknown 64 0.5 96 1.8 160 0.9

Kidney transplant history First transplant 10,379 87.9 4,707 89.0 15,086 88.2
Retransplant 1,428 12.1 584 11.0 2,012 11.8

DCD status* DBD 9,791 82.9
DCD 2,016 17.1

KDPI* ≤20% 2,529 21.4
21–34% 1,842 15.6
35–85% 6,116 51.8
> 85% 965 8.2
Unknown 355 3.0

All recipients 11,807 100.0

CKD, cystic kidney disease; DCD, donation after circulatory death; GN, glomerulonephritis; KDPI, kidney donor profile index; RRT, renal replacement therapy.

*

DCD status and KDPI scores apply to deceased donor transplants only.