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

Table 2 Patients’ Operative and Post-Operative Data by Ethnic Origin

	Ethnic origin of recipient		P-value
	Jews (N = 226)	Arabs (N = 28)	P-value
Operative Data
Ischemic time (minutes)	160 ± 45	153 ± 35	0.85
Primary graft dysfunction	33	36	0.80
Time from admission to discharge(days)	80 ± 120	43 ± 45	0.007
Time from HTx to discharge (days)	28 ± 46	18 ± 9	0.28
Early complications ^a	58	55	0.74
In-hospital death	13	18	0.51
Post-Operative Data
Statin after HTx	91	68	< 0.001
Baseline LDL after HTx^b	109 ± 34	132 ± 38	< 0.01
Hypertension after HTx	65	53	0.44
Diabetes after HTx	32	37	0.68
CMV disease	22	9	0.14
Immunosuppression			0.55
Cyclosporine- based	59	50
Tacrolimus-based	39	50
Everolimus-based	2	0

Continuous variables and categorical variables are presented as mean ± standard deviation and percentage, respectively
HTx heart transplantation, LDL low density lipoprotein, CMV cytomegalovirus
Early complications ^a – prolonged ventilation, sepsis, severe coagulopathy, cerebrovascular accident, prolonged chest tubes, early wound infection. LDL^b - as measured at 3 months following HTx

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