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Table 5.7a

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 2000 to 2008

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Deceased Donor non-ECD Kidney Transplantation

Ethnicity/Race Year of Transplant
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Patients 6,790 6,884 7,017 6,946 7,506 7,784 8,460 8,293 8,227
Deaths 390 312 324 310 316 339 329 292 264
Rate 59.6 46.7 47.5 45.9 43.2 44.7 39.8 36.0 32.7
White Patients 3,642 3,589 3,583 3,417 3,634 3,682 3,940 3,826 3,769
Deaths 207 156 182 155 173 175 167 141 112
Rate 59.0 44.8 52.4 46.6 49.0 48.9 43.4 37.7 30.2
African American Patients 1,958 2,057 2,077 2,083 2,266 2,400 2,581 2,627 2,587
Deaths 125 108 94 106 95 106 100 103 101
Rate 66.6 54.3 46.6 52.4 43.1 45.5 39.7 40.2 40.0
Other/Multi-race Patients 74 52 77 83 108 100 139 104 101
Deaths 3 4 2 0 4 3 5 2 4
Rate 41.0 81.6 26.5 0.0 37.8 30.8 36.7 19.4 41.0
Asian Patients 334 331 349 386 447 468 497 469 484
Deaths 17 15 12 13 13 16 16 11 16
Rate 52.4 46.6 35.1 34.4 29.5 35.0 32.9 23.8 33.8
Hispanic/Latino Patients 782 855 930 977 1,051 1,134 1,303 1,267 1,286
Deaths 38 29 34 36 31 39 41 35 31
Rate 50.2 34.7 37.5 37.8 30.1 35.1 32.1 28.2 24.5
Unknown Patients - - 1 - - - - - -
Deaths - - 0 - - - - - -
Rate - - * - - - - - -


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

(-) = None in category.

(*) = For cohorts with fewer than 10 patients, rates are imprecise and are not reported.

Multi-organ transplants are excluded.

Includes patients transplanted during the year and having reported data one-year after transplant.

Time at risk covers the period from transplant date until the date of death or one-year anniversary of the transplant.

See Technical Notes for further details.

Donors are divided into two mutually exclusive and complete categories. All donors meeting the criteria

for Expanded Criteria Donors for Kidney are classified as ECD, regardless of whether the kidneys were

allocated under the ECD system. Non-ECDs include all other donors, including SCDs and DCDs.