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Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 2000 to 2009

Heart Recipients

Recipient Ethnicity/Race	Year of Transplant
Recipient Ethnicity/Race	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Total	2,199	2,202	2,155	2,057	2,015	2,125	2,193	2,209	2,163	2,212
White	1,697	1,641	1,619	1,485	1,419	1,487	1,497	1,488	1,415	1,493
African American	293	314	306	337	339	374	413	424	435	422
Other/Multi-race	14	9	15	15	19	21	17	19	24	15
Asian	48	57	54	48	57	74	68	71	73	80
Hispanic/Latino	147	181	161	172	181	169	198	207	216	202
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	77.2%	74.5%	75.1%	72.2%	70.4%	70.0%	68.3%	67.4%	65.4%	67.5%
African American	13.3%	14.3%	14.2%	16.4%	16.8%	17.6%	18.8%	19.2%	20.1%	19.1%
Other/Multi-race	0.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%	0.9%	1.1%	0.7%
Asian	2.2%	2.6%	2.5%	2.3%	2.8%	3.5%	3.1%	3.2%	3.4%	3.6%
Hispanic/Latino	6.7%	8.2%	7.5%	8.4%	9.0%	8.0%	9.0%	9.4%	10.0%	9.1%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of October 1, 2010.

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than heart-lung, in which a deceased donor heart was one of

the organs transplanted.