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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Transplant. 2017 Dec 18;18(3):632–641. doi: 10.1111/ajt.14597

Table 5:

Risk Factors for Post-Transplant Mortality among KPD and non-KPD Living Kidney Donor Transplant Recipients

aHRa (95% CI) p-value

Cold Ischemia Time (per hour) 1.00 (0.96–1.04) >0.9

Recipient Age at Transplant (per year) 0.99 (0.95–1.03) 0.6
          Per year above 40 1.07 (1.02–1.12) <0.01

Female Recipient 0.79 (0.60–1.04) 0.1

Black Recipient 0.62 (0.40–0.98) 0.04

Peripheral Vascular Disease 1.71 (1.09–2.66) 0.02

Diabetic Recipient 1.97 (1.53–2.54) <0.001

Recipient Previous Transplant 1.48 (1.04–2.11) 0.03

Pre-emptive Transplant 0.64 (0.47–0.87) <0.01

Years of RRTb 1.06 (1.01–1.11) 0.01

Grade School (or None) Education 0.68 (0.32–1.46) 0.3
Recipient Public Insurance 1.10 (0.85–1.41) 0.5

LD KDPIc 1.01 (1.00–1.01) 0.02

Donor ABO O 0.97 (0.75–1.25) 0.8

Year of Transplant 0.91 (0.84–0.98) 0.02
a

Adjusted hazard ratio

b

Renal replacement therapy

c

Live Donor Kidney Donor Profile Index

Mortality was modeled in a Cox regression with shared frailties to adjust for center variation (n=6272). Missing data were handled through multivariate imputation.