Impact of Medicaid expansion on kidney transplantation in the State Oklahoma

Table 5 Cox proportional hazards model for a hazard ratio of variables for 1-year patient survival

Variables	aHR (95%CI)	P value
Age	1.04 (1.03, 1.05)	< 0.0001
Sex
Female	Reference
Male	1.19 (1.01, 1.40)	0.0426
Race
White	Reference
Black	0.98 (0.87, 1.20)	0.8699
Amer Ind/Alaska Native/Pacific Islander	1.52 (1.18, 1.97)	0.0014
Hispanic	0.82 (0.58, 1.17)	0.2748
Asian	0.73 (0.40, 1.33)	0.3056
Multiracial	1.05 (0.34, 3.32)	0.9289
Insurance
Private insurance	Reference
Public insurance	1.54 (1.25, 1.88)	< 0.0001
Recipient functional status at transplant
Able to carry on normal activity and to work. No special care needed	Reference
Unable to work; able to live at home and care for most personal needs; varying amount of assistance needed	1.53 (1.27, 1.84)	< 0.0001
Unable to care for self; requires equivalent of institutional or hospital care; diseases may be progressing rapidly	2.13 (1.09, 4.20)	0.0281
Medicaid expansion
Before medicaid expansion	Reference
After medicaid expansion	1.07 (0.26, 4.41)	0.9290

aHR: Adjusted hazard ratio.