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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg. 2020 Oct 7;163(3):853–860.e2. doi: 10.1016/j.jtcvs.2020.09.097

Table 2.

Donor and graft characteristics stratified by recipient survival

Variable <1 year survival 1–10 year survival >10 year survival p-value
(n=964) (n=2,843) (n=1,364)
Male sex 559 (58.0%) 1,713 (60.3%) 848 (62.2%) 0.126
Age (years, median, IQR) 31 (21–46) 31 (21–47) 29 (20–45) 0.046
BMI (kg/m2, median, IQR) 24.5 (21.9–27.6) 24.7 (22.0–27.8) 24.6 (21.9–27.5) 0.453
Race/ethnicity <0.001
 White 556 (57.7%) 1,825 (64.2%) 881 (64.6%)
 Black 222 (23.0%) 496 (17.4%) 225 (16.5%)
 Hispanic 157 (16.3%) 416 (14.6%) 199 (14.6%)
 Other 29 (3.0%) 106 (3.7%) 59 (4.3%)
Cigarette use 167 (17.5%) 429 (15.2%) 176 (13.0%) 0.010
Cocaine use 112 (11.7%) 323 (11.5%) 137 (10.2%) 0.396
Diabetes 72 (7.5%) 158 (5.6%) 59 (4.3%) 0.005
Hypertension 229 (23.9%) 571 (20.2%) 253 (18.6%) 0.007
Cancer 13 (1.4%) 60 (2.1%) 25 (1.8%) 0.323
Pulmonary infection 314 (32.6%) 861 (30.3%) 395 (29.0%) 0.173
Creatinine (mg/dL, median, IQR) 1.0 (0.8–1.3) 1.0 (0.8–1.3) 1.0 (0.8–1.3) 0.518
Total bilirubin (mg/dL, median, IQR) 0.8 (0.5–1.3) 0.8 (0.5–1.2) 0.7 (0.5–1.2) 0.022
P/F ratio 456 (387–511) 445 (376–506) 447 (383–502) 0.048
Cause of death 0.615
 Anoxia 90 (9.3%) 281 (9.9%) 145 (10.6%)
 Cerebrovascular/stroke 383 (39.7%) 1,048 (36.9%) 475 (34.8%)
 Head trauma 462 (47.9%) 1,430 (50.3%) 700 (51.3%)
 CNS tumor 8 (0.8%) 22 (0.8%) 12 (0.9%)
 Other 21 (2.2%) 62 (2.2%) 32 (2.3%)
Graft ischemic time (hours, median, IQR) 4.9 (4.0–6.1) 4.8 (3.8–6.0) 5.1 (4.2–6.2) <0.001

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