Table 1.
Donor characteristics and transplantation outcomes by donor race
| Covariates | Black (n=16,292) |
Non-Black (n=102,686) |
P Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Donor characteristics | |||
| Sex, M, n (%) | 9743 (59.80) | 61,263 (59.66) | 0.73 |
| Cause of death: CVA, n (%) | 6921 (42.48) | 37,606 (36.62) | <0.001 |
| Diabetic, n (%) | 1435 (8.81) | 7150 (6.96) | <0.001 |
| Hypertensive, n (%) | 6137 (37.67) | 28,274 (27.53) | <0.001 |
| Donation after cardiac death, n (%) | 1242 (7.62) | 16,270 (15.84) | <0.001 |
| Positive for hepatitis C virus, n (%) | 370 (2.27) | 3018 (2.94) | <0.001 |
| Age, yr, mean (SD) | 36.05 (17.03) | 39.26 (16.47) | <0.001 |
| Height, cm, mean (SD) | 167.12 (22.24) | 168.68 (18.19) | 0.35 |
| Weight, kg, mean (SD) | 79.17 (27.89) | 79.29 (24.26) | 0.14 |
| Serum creatinine, mean (SD) | 1.33 (1.05) | 1.14 (0.96) | <0.001 |
| Transplant factors | |||
| En bloc/dual transplant, n (%) | 740 (4.54) | 2986 (2.91) | <0.001 |
| Transplant outcome | |||
| Graft failure, n (%) | 2972 (18.3) | 15,007 (14.7) | <0.001 |
| Median survival, yr, (IQR) | 2.69 (0.83, 5.22) | 3.03 (0.82, 5.88) | <0.001 |
| Death, n (%) | 2514 (15.5) | 17,946 (17.6) | <0.001 |
| Median survival, yr, (IQR) | 3.51 (1.29, 6.43) | 4.42 (1.75, 7.32) | <0.001 |
| Censoring, n (%) | 10,753 (66.2) | 69,295 (67.8) | <0.001 |
| Median survival, yr, (IQR) | 3.78 (1.11, 6.61) | 3.92 (1.51, 6.99) | <0.001 |
Censoring, patient who did not have allograft failure or die at the last date of reporting. M, male; CVA, cerebrovascular accident; IQR, interquartile range.