Ethnic disparity in Israel impacts long-term results after heart transplantation

Table 1 Characteristics of patients by ethnicity

	Ethnic origin of recipient		P-value
	Jews (N = 226)	Arabs (N = 28)	P-value
Gender - recipient [male, %]	84	64	0.01
Gender - donor [male, %]	70	73	0.90
Age - recipient (years)	50 ± 12	42 ± 14	0.001
Age - donor (years)	33 ± 12	35 ± 12	0.46
Weight - recipient (kg)	73 ± 14	74 ± 16	0.61
Weight - donor (kg)	75 ± 18	77 ± 21	0.52
Height - recipient (cm)	171 ± 11	172 ± 9	0.78
Height - donor (cm)	174 ± 13	176 ± 7	0.50
BMI - recipient	25 ± 4	25 ± 5	0.51
BMI - donor	25 ± 5	26 ± 6	0.50
Etiology of HTx (IHD, %)	61	43	0.07
Hypertension (%)	37	36	0.90
Diabetes (%)	19	28	0.22
Dyslipidemia (%)	48	36	0.21
Past Smoker (%)	43	43	0.98
Listing status (%)
Status 1	69	80	0.27
Status 2	31	20
Creatinine (mg/dL)	1.6 ± 3.7	1.2 ± 0.5	0.55
Bilirubin (mg/dL)	1.3 ± 2.4	1.2 ± 0.7	0.83
Systolic pulmonary artery pressure (mmHg)	51 ± 19	48 ± 18	0.45
Diastolic pulmonary artery pressure (mmHg)	25 ± 11	26 ± 10	0.63
Mean pulmonary artery pressure (mmHg)	35 ± 14	36 ± 13	0.88
Pulmonary capillary wedge pressure(mmHg)	25 ± 11	25 ± 9	0.90
Cardiac output (L/min)	3.6 ± 1.0	3.4 ± 1.5	0.43
Pulmonary vascular resistance (Wood)	3.2 ± 2.2	2.8 ± 2.3	0.58
ICD (%)	42	41	0.89
Family history of IHD (%)	52	41	0.26
LVAD bridge to HTx (%)	16	18	0.78
PRA > 30%	0.5	0.0	0.97
CMV mismatch	64	56	0.48
Blood type
A (%)	45	40	0.90
AB (%)	12	12
B (%)	17	16
O (%)	25	32

Continuous variables and categorical variables are presented as mean ± standard deviation and percentage, respectively
BMI body mass index, HTx heart transplantation, CMV cytomegalovirus, ICD implantable cardioverter defibrillator, IHD ischemic heart disease, LVAD left ventricular assist device, PRA panel of reactive antibodies

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