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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2017 Aug 14;17(12):3141–3148. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14416

Table 1.

General characteristics of donors studied (n = 4,014), mean (SD) or %

Variable All Donors DM Donors
(n=309)
Non-DM Donors
(n=3705)
p value
(DM vs. non-DM)
Age, years 39.5 (11.7) 38.0 (11.2) 39.7 (11.7) 0.01
Caucasian 95.0% 91.9% 95.2% 0.01
Related to recipient 78.9 90.3 78.0 <0.01
Female gender 58.2 52.1 58.7 0.03
Smoker 30.1 41.2 29.2 <0.01
Body mass index, kg/m2 25.8 (4.3) 27.6 (4.8) 25.7 (4.2) <0.01
Systolic blood pressure, mm Hg 119.9 (13.0) 119.6 (13.3) 119.9 (13.0) 0.70
Diastolic blood pressure, mm Hg 73.4 (9.9) 74.1 (10.0) 73.3 (9.9) 0.17
Recipient kidney disease
  Glomerulonephritis 28.8 31.7 28.6 0.35
  Type 2 diabetes 4.3 3.2 4.4
  Other 66.9 65.1 67.0
Serum glucose, mg/dL 93.3 (14.6) 97.5 (19.1) 93.0 (14.1) <0.01
Serum creatinine, mg/dL 0.90 (0.16) 0.94 (0.17) 0.90 (0.16) <0.01
eGFR (CKD-EPI), ml/min/1.73 m2 99.2 (25.4) 111.0 (31.0) 98.2 (24.7) <0.01
At latest follow-up
eGFR (CKD-EPI), ml/min/1.73 m2 64.5 (16.4) 63.5 (19.6) 64.6 (16.1) 0.37
HTN 32.5 74.0 29.0 <0.01
Proteinuria 7.2 25.7 5.6 <0.01
CVD 12.6 31.8 11.0 <0.01
BMI, kg/m2 27.8 (5.5) 31.6 (6.1) 27.5 (5.3) <0.01

CKD-EPI = Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration equation; eGFR = estimated glomerular filtration rate; SD = standard deviation