Table 6.

Transplant outcomes in a 1‐1 case‐control propensity score matched analysis of recipients of kidneys from donors who died following ligature asphyxiation and their matched controls. Propensity scores were estimated using the following donor and recipient variables: donor age, recipient age, donor past medical history of hypertension, primary renal disease, HLA mismatch grade, cold ischaemic time, donor weight, donor type (DBD and DCD), and transplant year

	Recipients of kidneys from donors dying after ligature asphyxiation (n = 622) median propensity score, 0.059 (0.031‐0.108)	Matched control recipients (n = 622) median propensity score, 0.060 (0.030‐ 0.105)	Propensity score matched ligature asphyxiation vs. nonligature asphyxiation	P value
Primary‐nonfunction	9/570 (1.6%)	11 /580 (1.9%)	OR 1.083 (0.456‐2.569)	.897
Delayed graft function	152/570 (26.7%)	132/580 (22.8%)	OR 0.810 (0.619‐1.060)	.687
1‐y death censored graft survival	96.1%	96.3%	HR 1.051 (0.593‐1.862)	.865
5‐y death censored graft survival	91.3%	89.2%	HR 0.805 (0.537‐1.208)	.295
1‐y patient survival from transplantation	97.5%	97.8%	HR 0.664 (0.347‐1.273)	.218
5‐y patient survival from transplantation	90.7%	92.5%	HR 0.985 (0.640‐1.515)	.945
1‐y first kidney, death censored graft survival (n = 1077)	96.6%	96.8%	HR 1.06 (0.544‐2.046)	.875
5‐y first kidney, death censored graft survival (n = 1077)	92.9%	90.9%	HR 0.800 (0.499‐1.282)	.353
12‐mo eGFR (n = 1104)	61 (47‐74) (n = 535)	59 (47‐74) (n = 557)	PE 1.575 (−3.392‐2.788)	.848

HR, hazard ratio; OR, odds ratio; PE, parameter estimate.