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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nephrology (Carlton). 2019 Apr 30;24(8):855–862. doi: 10.1111/nep.13488

Table 1.

Patient characteristic comparison table. United Network of Organ Sharing, UNOS; Kidney Donor Profile Index, KPDI; Body Mass Index, BMI; Medical University of South Carolina, MUSC; Electronic Health Record, EHR; Length of Stay, LOS; Systolic Blood Pressure, SBP; Myocardial Infarction, MI; Hemoglobin, HGB; Cytomegalovirus, CMV; estimated Glomerular Filtration Rate, eGFR; Inpatient, IP; Emergency Department, ED; Natural Language Processing, NLP; BK virus, BK; Standard Deviation = SD

Variable 5Yr Graft Loss
(N=265)
Censored
(N=1,174)
P-value

UNOS
Age at Transplant (yrs; mean ± SD) 54 ± 14 51 ± 14 0.005
Categorical Age at Transplant 0.005
  Age <= 40 20% 23% 0.202
  Age = 41–60 41% 47% 0.049
  Age > 60 40% 29% 0.001
Female 38% 40% 0.428
African American 57% 54% 0.521
Deceased Donor Type 89% 83% 0.018
African American Donor 33% 26% 0.020
KDPI (mean ± SD) 52 ± 31 39 ± 29 <.001
Categorical KDPI <.001
  KDPI = 1% - 20% 20% 34% <.001
  KDPI = 21% - 84% 61% 60% 0.633
  KDPI = 85% - 100% 19% 7% <.001
Blood Type B 17% 16% 0.708
Waiting Time (Years) 1.8 ± 1.7 1.7 ± 1.6 0.337
Delayed Graft Function 18% 15% 0.117
Diabetes 41% 34% 0.033
BMI (mean ± SD) 28.8 ± 5.7 29.0 ± 5.4 0.497
Categorical BMI 0.907
  BMI < 20 5% 4% 0.689
  BMI = 20–35 80% 81% 0.732
  BMI >= 35 15% 15% 0.882
Private Insurance 22% 28% 0.072
Distance to MUSC_km (mean ± SD) 249 ± 172 238 ± 196 0.358
Categorical Distance to MUSC 0.295
  Distance < 80 km 23% 26% 0.399
  Distance = 80 – 161 km 9% 11% 0.484
  Distance = 161 – 322 km 38% 40% 0.661
  Distance >= 322 km 29% 23% 0.063
Previous Kidney Transplant 11% 8% 0.135
Velos+EHR
Finish High School 85% 87% 0.243
Employed 25% 33% 0.013
Received Disability 50% 47% 0.338
Married 59% 62% 0.480
Smoker 12% 6% 0.001
EHR
Congestive Heart Failure 17% 12% 0.036
Peripheral Vascular Disorders 14% 11% 0.231
Cerebrovascular Disease 5% 6% 0.644
Cardiac Arrhythmias 30% 22% 0.005
Valvular Disease 9% 9% 0.767
Hypertension 96% 96% 0.931
Alcohol Abuse 5% 3% 0.201
Drug Abuse 4% 3% 0.328
Depression 13% 12% 0.891
Myocardial Infarction 12% 5% <.001
Transplant LOS_Days (mean ± SD) 4.0 ± 3.9 3.4 ± 2.3 0.024
Transplant LOS > 3 days 26% 20% 0.057
Acute MI 3.4% 0.9% 0.002
Cardiac or Vascular Event 41% 20% <.001
Any CMV > 500 14% 12% 0.338
SBP Mean (mm Hg mean ± SD) 141 ± 13 142 ± 12 0.357
Categorical SBP Mean 0.172
  SBP Mean < 110 3% 1% 0.061
  SBP Mean = 110–159 92% 93% 0.455
  SBP Mean >=160 6% 6% 0.946
Pulse Pressure SDev 14.8 ± 3.7 13.8 ± 3.8 <.001
Pulse Mean 81 ± 9 80 ± 9 0.095
Glucose Mean (g/dL) 140 ± 33 134 ± 32 0.002
HGB Mean (g/dL) 10.7 ± 1.6 11.3 ± 1.4 <.001
HGB Slope per30days (g/dL/30 days) −0.21 ± 3.72 0.33 ± 0.60 0.021
Maximum eGFR (ml/min/1.73 m2) 64 ± 41 69 ± 23 0.043
eGFR SDev (ml/min/1.73 m2) 11.0 ± 8.4 10.1 ± 5.3 0.073
eGFR Slope perWK - Maximum Value (ml/min/1.73 m2/week) −5.5 ± 22.1 −1.4 ± 3.7 0.003
Tacrolimus Mean (ng/ml) 8.6 ± 1.6 8.8 ± 1.3 0.043
Tacrolimus SDev (ng/ml) 4.0 ± 1.4 3.7 ± 1.1 <.001
INP Readm Count 1.6 ± 1.7 0.9 ± 1.3 <.001
ED Readm Count .17 ± .74 .15 ± .51 0.666
EHR+NLP
BK plus Rejection <.001
  Any BK > 500 and Rejection 4% 3% 0.413
  Any BK > 500 Only 11% 14% 0.124
  Rejection Only 11% 3% <.001
  No BK > 500 and No Rejection 74% 79% 0.057

HGB slope determined between 7 days post-transplant until the end of the exposure.

Exposure period for 5-year model is 365 days.