Histological and clinical evaluation of marginal donor kidneys before transplantation: Which is best?

Table 6 Donor and transplant factors and corresponding hazard ratios for graft failure

	Hazard ratio	95%CI	P value
Donor parameter
Age	1.013	1.011-1.015	< 0.0001
Afro American race	1.20	1.13-1.27	< 0.0001
Serum creatinine	1.25	1.17-1.23	< 0.0001
Hypertensive	1.13	1.08-1.19	< 0.0001
Diabetic	1.14	1.04-1.24	0.0040
Cause of Death	1.09	1.04-1.14	0.0002
Height	0.96	0.94-0.97	< 0.0001
Weight	0.98	0.97-0.99	0.0003
Donation after cardiac death	1.14	1.02-1.28	0.0246
HCV positive	1.27	1.13-1.43	< 0.0001
Transplant parameter
HLA-DR mismatch	0.88	0.84-0.92	< 0.0001
Cold ischemia time	1.005	1.003-1.008	< 0.0001
En bloc transplant	0.70	0.57-0.84	0.0002
Double kidney transplant	0.86	0.75-1.00	0.0494

HLA:Human leukocyte antigen; HCV:Hepatitis C virus.