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Table 5.7c

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

Rates for Recipients during First Year after Deceased Donor Kidney Transplantation

Ethnicity/Race Year of Transplant
2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Total Patients 7,960 8,072 8,287 8,388 9,030 9,511 10,216 10,085 10,104
Deaths 500 436 442 450 459 506 481 414 388
Rate 65.4 55.9 55.2 55.5 52.5 55.0 48.5 42.1 39.3
White Patients 4,258 4,220 4,220 4,129 4,347 4,529 4,816 4,680 4,613
Deaths 270 224 244 224 247 245 250 210 181
Rate 66.0 55.0 60.0 56.1 58.8 55.9 53.5 46.1 40.1
African American Patients 2,310 2,409 2,487 2,563 2,713 2,925 3,150 3,194 3,186
Deaths 156 142 132 160 132 157 149 137 132
Rate 70.6 61.2 54.9 64.8 50.2 55.5 48.8 44.1 42.6
Other/Multi-race Patients 88 68 90 98 145 131 159 128 131
Deaths 5 6 3 1 7 8 6 4 4
Rate 57.9 93.3 34.0 10.3 49.9 64.1 38.6 31.7 31.4
Asian Patients 411 399 425 477 559 589 620 597 616
Deaths 19 25 22 21 21 29 21 19 22
Rate 47.4 65.4 53.5 45.4 38.4 50.8 34.6 32.5 36.6
Hispanic/Latino Patients 893 976 1,064 1,121 1,266 1,337 1,471 1,486 1,558
Deaths 50 39 41 44 52 67 55 44 49
Rate 58.1 41.0 39.5 40.3 42.1 51.7 38.3 30.2 32.1
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.