Table 1.

Characteristics of the older liver transplant (LT) recipients from 2003–2016.

Characteristic	2003–2006	2007–2009	2010– 06/18/2013	06/19/2013– 2016	P value
	N=1453	N=1544	N=2222	N=3408
Recipient characteristic
Age (years), mean± SD	68.0± 2.7	67.8± 2.6	67.8± 2.5	67.6± 2.4	.001
Female, %	38.9	37.2	36.9	34.0	.006
BMI, mean± SD	27.4± 4.9	27.9± 5.3	28.0± 5.1	28.4± 5.1	<.001
Race, %
White	77.7	74.1	73.8	73.8	<.001
African American	3.9	5.1	6.7	7.8
Indication for LT, %
Hepatitis C virus cirrhosis	16.5	12.6	15.8	18.1	<.001
Alcoholic cirrhosis	12.6	14.1	12.7	13.0
Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis	5.8	13.0	14.2	19.5
Hepatocellular carcinoma	18.4	27.9	29.1	28.9
Cholestatic liver disease	10.0	8.3	7.8	6.7
Non-cholestatic cirrhosis	26.4	18.2	13.8	8.6
MELD, %
<10	3.0	1.4	0.6	0.4	<.001
10–19	28.3	20.7	12.7	11.4
20–29	53.8	62.7	58.3	52.9
30–39	11.1	10.6	20.2	27.5
≥40	1.9	3.6	6.4	6.7
Status 1/1A	1.9	1.1	1.7	1.2
Life support (prior to LT)	2.8	3.1	4.7	5.3	<.001
Ascites, %	2.0	2.0	2.0	1.9	.001
Albumin (g/dL)	1.1	1.1	1.1	1.2	<.001
Portal vein thrombosis, %	5.0	8.9	14.3	14.6	<.001
Comorbidities, %
HIV	0.1	0.1	0.1	0.2	.79
Hepatitis C	27.5	27.6	30.2	32.6	<.001
Diabetes mellitus	31.0	34.5	33.5	37.4	<.001
Liver transplant characteristic
Cold ischemia time (hours), %
0–8	72.3	80.6	88.4	88.5	<.001
9–11	18.0	14.2	9.8	9.7
≥12	9.7	5.2	1.8	1.8
ABO incompatible, %	0.5	0.5	0.7	1.0	.08
Split graft, %	1.2	1.9	1.7	1.5	.37
Donor characteristic
Age, %					<.001
<18	6.2	6.2	5.1	5.1
18–39	28.8	32.8	34.6	36.5
40–49	18.7	17.5	16.9	17.1
50–59	19.0	18.3	20.2	20.3
60–69	15.4	13.8	15.0	14.3
≥70	12.0	11.5	8.2	6.7
Female, %	44.9	40.2	43.1	40.8	.02
Race, %
White	71.6	64.4	66.0	65.7	<.001
African American	14.3	17.2	19.4	18.8
Donation after cardiac death, %	4.8	6.4	5.4	7.2	.003
Hepatitis C, %	1.2	1.8	2.3	5.3	<.001