Table 1. Patient demographic characteristics.
Variable | Result |
Median age (IQR), years | 61 (53, 67) |
Sex, male/female | 139 (58.9)/97 (41.1) |
Median time since liver transplant (IQR), months | 50.9 (19.6, 119.8) |
Current immunosuppression medication | |
Primary | |
Tacrolimus | 190 (80.5) |
Cyclosporine | 25 (10.6) |
Sirolimus | 23 (9.7) |
Adjunct | |
Mycophenolate | 78 (33.1) |
Prednisone | 39 (16.5) |
Ethnicity | |
Non-Hispanic white | 99 (41.9) |
Hispanic white | 89 (38.7) |
African American | 13 (5.5) |
Asian | 26 (11.0) |
Native American | 3 (1.2) |
Other | 9 (3.8) |
Indication for liver transplantation | |
Hepatitis B | 20 (8.5) |
Hepatitis C | 125 (53) |
Alcoholic cirrhosis | 35 (14.8) |
Autoimmune hepatitis | 14 (5.9) |
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease | 31 (13.1) |
Other† | 37 (15.7) |
Pre-transplant hepatocellular cancer | 34 (14.4) |
History of smoking | 206 (87.3) |
Pre-transplant | |
Diabetes mellitus | 49 (20.8) |
Hypertension | 90 (38.1) |
High cholesterol | 40 (17.0) |
High triglycerides | 49 (20.8) |
Post-transplant | |
Diabetes mellitus | 64 (27.1) |
Hypertension | 129 (54.7) |
High cholesterol | 59 (25) |
High triglycerides | 24 (10.2) |
Body mass index, median (IQR) | |
Before transplant | 28 (24.4, 31.2) |
After transplant, first clinic visit | 26 (23.2, 29.9) |
Current | 26.8 (24.2, 30.4) |
Education | |
Less than high school | 9 (3.8) |
High school | 123 (52.1) |
College | 46 (19.5) |
Graduate | 35 (14.8) |
Other | 23 (9.7) |
Estimated annual income | |
<$50,000 | 114 (48.3) |
$50,000–100,000 | 79 (33.5) |
>$100,000 | 43 (18.2) |
Employment status | |
Employed | 82 (34.7) |
Retired | 93 (39.4) |
Other | 61 (25.8) |
<35 hours/week | 18 (8.5) |
>35 hours/week | 50 (23.6) |
Data are presented as n (%), unless otherwise indicated. IQR, interquartile range.
Other reasons for transplant: cryptogenic cirrhosis, Wilson’s disease, acute liver failure, primary biliary cirrhosis, hemochromatosis, benign tumor, polycystic liver disease, alpha-1-antitrypsin disease.