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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Sep 24.
Published in final edited form as: Transpl Int. 2021 May 19;34(6):1052–1064. doi: 10.1111/tri.13891

Table 7.

Baseline characteristics of recipients of <35% KDPI renal allografts in SLK, KAL and KTA transplant settings before and after policy implementation.

SLK KAL KTA
Prepolicy Postpolicy P-value Prepolicy Postpolicy P-value Prepolicy Postpolicy P-value
Number (% of total KDPI <35% transplants in era) 992 (7.1%) 917 (6.2%) <0.01 34 (0.2%) 38 (0.3%) 0.39 12 938 (92.7%) 13 698 (93.5%) <0.01
Age 58 (50–64) 58 (51–64) 0.76 57 (49–62) 59 (45–63) 0.93 45 (33–57) 45 (33–57) 0.27
Female Sex 382 (38.5%) 380 (41.4%) 0.21 13 (38.2%) 13 (34.2%) 0.81 5229 (40.4%) 5665 (41.4%) 0.12
Ethnicity 0.31 0.23 <0.01
 White 660 (66.5%) 576 (62.8%) 28 (82.4%) 24 (63.2%) 4843 (37.4%) 4963 (36.2%)
 Black 134 (13.5%) 128 (14.0%) 1 (2.9%) 5 (13.2%) 4426 (34.2%) 4390 (32.1%)
 Asian 29 (2.9%) 29 (3.1%) 1 (2.9%) 1 (2.6%) 831 (6.4%) 978 (7.1%)
 Other 169 (17.1%) 184 (20.1%) 4 (11.8%) 8 (21.0%) 2838 (22.0%) 3367 (24.6%)
BMI 26.7 (23.3–31.6) 26.8 (23.5–31.1) 0.98 24.8 (23.1–28.8) 28.2 (23.8–31.2) 0.24 27.1 (23.1–31.6) 27.3 (23.2–31.8) 0.15
cPRA 0 (0–0) 0 (0–0) 0.28 0 (0–87) 0 (0–17) 0.18 0 (0–50) 0 (0–45) 0.02
Days on waitlist 33 (8–163) 44 (11–188) 0.03 457 (104–1001) 57 (20–116) <0.01 596 (160–1313) 505 (126–1294) <0.01
Hemodialysis 468 (47.2%) 436 (47.5%) 0.89 31 (91.1%) 26 (68.4%) 0.02 10 943 (84.6%) 11 105 (81.1%) <0.01
Previous kidney transplant 26 (2.6%) 31 (3.4%) 0.35 1 (2.9%) 3 (7.9%) 0.62 1400 (10.8%) 1149 (8.4%) <0.01
Etiology of renal failure 0.43 <0.01 0.25
 ATN/HRS 263 (26.5%) 263 (28.7%) 17 (50.0%) 9 (23.7%) 7526 (58.2%) 7973 (58.2%)
 Diabetes Mellitus 483 (48.7%) 436 (47.5%) 10 (29.4%) 21 (55.3%) 61 (0.5%) 65 (0.5%)
 Hypertension 195 (19.7%) 162 (17.7%) 0 (0.0%) 7 (18.4%) 2368 (18.3%) 2613 (19.1%)
 Other 51 (5.1%) 56 (6.1%) 7 (20.6%) 1 (2.6%) 2983 (23.0%) 3047 (22.2%)

Values are listed as median +/− interquartile range unless otherwise stated.