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. 2022 Dec 30;21(8):2774–2784. doi: 10.1111/ajt.16692

TABLE 3.

Risk factors for 28-day mortality in hospitalized lung and non-lung solid-organ transplant recipients with COVID-19, univariable logistic regression models

Covariate Lung (n = 120)
Non-lung (n = 961)
All SOTR (n = 1081)
Unadjusted OR (95% CI) p-value Unadjusted OR ratio (95% CI) p-value Unadjusted OR ratio (95% CI) p-value
Age >65 years 1.3 (0.6–3.0) .6 2.3 (1.6–3.3) <.001 2.1 (1.6–3.0) <.001
Male sex 0.6 (0.3–1.3) .2 1.2 (0.8–1.7) .44
Black racea 0.5 (0.2–1.6) .3 1.1 (0.7–1.5) .74 1.0 (0.7–1.4) .84
Latinx or Hispanic ethnicity 1.0 (0.3–2.7) >.9 0.9 (0.6–1.4) .7 0.9 (0.6–1.3) .6
Region (vs. Midwest)
Northeast 1.7 (0.3–9.5) .6 0.9 (0.5–1.6) .7 0.9 (0.5–1.6) .79
South 1.6 (0.3–8.9) .5 0.8 (0.5–1.4) .4 0.8 (0.5–1.5) .54
West 1.8 (0.3–9.4) .5 0.8 (0.4–1.6) .6 1.0 (0.5–1.8) .91
Organa
Lung 2.6 (1.0–2.6) .04
Single lung transplant 2.2 (0.9–5.3) .08
Heart 0.7 (0.5–1.3) .3 0.7 (0.4–1.2) .15
Liver 0.9 (0.5–1.4) .6 0.8 (0.5–1.3) .40
Kidney 1.1 (0.8–1.7) .5 0.9 (0.7–1.3)
Comorbidities
Hypertension 0.6 (0.3–1.5) .3 2.2 (1.3–3.7) .004 1.4 (0.9–2.1) .12
Diabetes mellitus 0.8 (0.3–1.8) .5 1.9 (1.3–2.7) .001 1.6 (1.2–2.2) .003
Heart failure 1.05 (0.2–5.5) >.9 3.8 (2.2–6.6) <.001 3.2 (1.9–5.5) <.001
Obesity (BMI ≥30 kg/m2) 2.0 (0.8–5.2) .2 1.6 (1.1–2.2) .02 1.5 (1.1–2.1) .008
Chronic kidney disease 1.2 (0.5–2.8) .7 1.3 (0.9–1.8) .2 1.29 (0.9–1.8) .11
Coronary artery disease 0.6 (0.2–2.0) .4 1.6 (1.1–2.4) .03 1.4 (1.0–2.1) .07
Chronic lung disease 2.9 (1.0–8.7) .06 4.1 (2.4–7.3) <.001 4.0 (2.4–6.6) <.001
CLAD 2.9 (1.0–8.7) .06
Immunosuppression
Recent induction therapy >.99 0.5 (0.2–1.3) .2 0.5 (0.2–1.2) .1
CNI, anti-metabolite, and steroids use 1.9 (0.7–5.1) .2 0.9 (0.6–1.2) .5 1.0 (0.7–1.4) >.9
Any CNI containing regimen >.99 1.2 (0.7–2.2) .5 1.3 (0.7–2.5) .4
Any anti-metabolite containing regimen 1.7 (0.6–4.6) .3 0.9 (0.6–1.3) .5 0.9 (0.7–1.3) .8
Any steroid containing regimen 0.6 (0.1–7.2) .7 1.1 (0.7–1.6) .7 1.1 (0.8–1.6) .5
Any mTOR containing regimen 0.4 (0.0–3.1) .4 0.2 (0.1–0.8) .03 0.3 (0.1–0.8) .02

Abbreviations: BMI, body mass index; CI, confidence interval; CLAD, chronic lung allograft dysfunction; CNI, calcineurin inhibitor; mTOR, mammalian target of rapamycin; OR, odds ratio.

a

Refers to patients who received a transplant of the specified organ, with or without transplant other organs: lung (n = 120), heart (n = 133), liver (n = 155), kidney (n = 723). Reference is no transplant of the listed organ.