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. 2018 Mar 1;23(9):17-00384. doi: 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2018.23.9.17-00384

Table 1. Sex, age and area of residency for all screened donors of tissues and cells, the Netherlands, 2010–2015 (n = 15,133).

Variable Donors Femoral head donors Cord blood donors Post-mortal
donors
n %a n %a n %a n %a
Number of patients 15,133 100 9,478 63 565 4 5,090 34
Sex Male 7,122 47 3,829 40 NA 3,293 65
Female 8,011 53 5,649 60 565 100 1,797 35
Mean age in years ± standard deviation 65 ± 14 68 ± 11 32 ± 5 64 ± 13
Age group (in years) 0–10 27 <1 8b <1 NA 19 <1
11–20 88 1 46c <1 1 <1 41 1
21–30 329 2 46 <1 218 39 65 1
31–40 499 3 51 1 329 58 119 2
41–50 866 6 404 4 17 3 445 9
51–60 2,404 16 1,422 15 NA 982 19
61–70 5,022 33 3,502 37 NA 1,520 30
71–80 4,685 31 3,071 32 NA 1,614 32
81–90 1,202 8 917 10 NA 285 6
91–100 11 <1 11 <1 NA NA
Residency in high-risk area Yes 1,710 11 993d 10 33 6 684 13
No 13,216 87 8,467 89 530 94 4,219 83
Unknown 207 1 18 <1 2 <1 187 4

NA: not applicable.

a Column percentages, except for the first row which shows row percentages.

b Including eight skull-cap donors.

c Including 16 skull-cap donors and five cartilage donors.

d For the bank processing femoral heads in the eastern part of the Netherlands, 21.7% of donors lived in a high-risk area. For the bank processing femoral heads in the western part of the Netherlands, 3.0% of donors lived in a high-risk area (cord blood and post mortal donors were processed centrally).