Table 2.

Donor characteristics stratified by donor brain death duration

	Time from brain death to cross clamp
Variable	< 24 hours	24–60 hours	> 60 hours	p-value
	(n=2,455)	(n=15,097)	(n=2,169)
Donor male gender	60.0% (1, 472)	59.9% (9, 043)	61.7% (1, 339)	0.261
Donor age (median, IQR)	35 (26.5)	32 (24)	32 (23)	< 0.001
Donor BMI (median, IQR)	24.9 (6.1)	25.2 (6.4)	25.7 (6.6)	< 0.001
Donor ethnicity				< 0.001
White	73.0% (1, 792)	62.3% (9, 403)	42.9% (931)
Black	15.2% (372)	19.8% (2, 991)	20.6% (446)
Hispanic	8.6% (210)	13.9% (2, 100)	29.3% (636)
Other	3.3% (81)	4.0% (603)	7.2% (156)
Donor history
Cigarette use	11.6% (286)	9.2% (1, 396)	6.1% (132)	< 0.001
Cocaine use	10.3% (254)	13.5% (2, 041)	14.8% (321)	< 0.001
Alcohol abuse	12.4% (304)	13.9% (2, 105)	14.6% (316)	0.065
Diabetes	7.5% (185)	7.0% (1, 058)	7.1% (153)	0.639
Hypertension	24.6% (604)	23.3% (3, 511)	21.7% (471)	0.068
Cancer	2.6% (64)	1.9% (290)	1.1% (23)	0.001
Pulmonary infection	40.7% (998)	56.4% (8, 522)	72.5% (1, 573)	< 0.001
Donor creatinine (median, IQR)	1.0 (0.6)	1.0 (0.7)	1.0 (0.9)	< 0.001
Donor bilirubin (median, IQR)	0.8 (0.7)	0.7 (0.6)	0.8 (0.7)	< 0.001
Donor cause of death				< 0.001
Anoxia	14.8% (363)	18.5% (2, 790)	23.7% (515)
Cerebrovascular/stroke	40.1% (984)	33.0% (4, 985)	29.2% (634)
Head trauma	42.6% (1, 046)	45.4% (6, 848)	44.1% (957)
CNS tumor	0.5% (12)	0.7% (100)	0.7% (15)
Other	2.0% (50)	2.5% (374)	2.2% (48)
Organs recovered for transplant (median, IQR)	6 (2)	6 (2)	6 (1)	< 0.001
ABO blood type				0.004
A	37.4% (917)	36.6% (5, 529)	33.4% (724)
B	11.1% (273)	10.8% (1, 630)	10.6% (230)
AB	2.4% (60)	2.2% (337)	1.6% (34)
O	49.1% (1, 205)	50.3% (7, 601)	54.4% (1, 181)
Graft ischemic time (hours, median, IQR)	5.0 (2.1)	5.0 (2.1)	4.9 (2.2)	< 0.001

IQR, interquartile range; BMI, body mass index; CNS, central nervous system