Table 1. Characteristics of First-Time Adult Recipients of Transplants Residing in Ontario From 1994 to 2012.
| Variable | No. (%) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kidney (n = 6296) | Liver (n = 2413) | Heart (n = 684) | Lung (n = 805) | Total (n = 10 198) | ||
| Age at transplant | ||||||
| Median (IQR), y | 49 (39-59) | 53 (46-59) | 53 (44-59) | 53 (39-60) | 51 (41-59) | |
| 18-35 | 1182 (18.8) | 214 (8.9) | 86 (12.6) | 168 (20.9) | 1650 (16.2) | |
| 36-50 | 2175 (34.5) | 739 (30.6) | 204 (29.8) | 183 (22.7) | 3301 (32.4) | |
| 51-65 | 2267 (36.0) | 1317 (54.6) | 362 (52.9) | 381 (47.3) | 4327 (42.4) | |
| >65 | 672 (10.7) | 143 (5.9) | 32 (4.7) | 73 (9.1) | 920 (9.0) | |
| Sex | ||||||
| Male | 3997 (63.5) | 1655 (68.6) | 530 (77.5) | 426 (52.9) | 6608 (64.8) | |
| Race | ||||||
| White | 4368 (69.4) | 634 (26.3) | 361 (52.8) | 601 (74.7) | 5964 (58.5) | |
| Black | 374 (5.9) | 19 (0.8) | 14 (2.0) | 11 (1.4) | 418 (4.1) | |
| Asian/mixed/other | 1101 (17.5) | 288 (11.9) | 41 (6.0) | 54 (6.7) | 1484 (14.6) | |
| Unknown | 453 (7.2) | 1472 (61.0) | 268 (39.2) | 139 (17.3) | 2332 (22.9) | |
| Income quintile: 4th or 5th | 2377 (37.8) | 964 (40.0) | 286 (41.8) | 331 (41.1) | 3958 (38.8) | |
| Urban residence | 5562 (88.3) | 2161 (89.6) | 575 (84.1) | 710 (88.2) | 9008 (88.3) | |
| Pretransplant skin cancer: keratinocyte carcinoma or melanoma | 287 (4.6) | 103 (4.3) | 22 (3.2) | 55 (6.8) | 467 (4.6) | |
| Pretransplant precancerous lesions: actinic keratosis or carcinoma in situ | 75 (1.2) | 32 (1.3) | 6 (0.9) | 10 (1.2) | 123 (1.2) | |
| Multiorgan transplant at initial treatmenta | 289 (4.6) | 18 (0.7) | 4 (0.6) | 23 (2.9) | 334 (3.3) | |
| Subsequent transplant | 99 (1.6) | 111 (4.6) | 13 (1.9) | 23 (2.9) | 246 (2.4) | |
| Year of transplant | ||||||
| 1994-2000 | 1884 (29.9) | 666 (27.6) | 249 (36.4) | 161 (20.0) | 2960 (29.0) | |
| 2001-2006 | 1858 (29.5) | 784 (32.5) | 199 (29.1) | 241 (29.9) | 3082 (30.2) | |
| 2007-2012 | 2554 (40.6) | 963 (39.9) | 236 (34.5) | 403 (50.1) | 4156 (40.8) | |
Abbreviation: IQR, interquartile range.
a
Classified under the single organ listed in parentheses: kidney-pancreas (kidney), liver-kidney (liver), lung-heart or lung-liver (lung), and heart-liver or heart-kidney (heart).