Waitlist Mortality and Posttransplant Outcomes in African Americans with Autoimmune Liver Diseases

Table 4

Multivariate Cox proportional hazards model for graft survival.

	HR	95% CI	value
Age	1	0.99–1	0.300
Gender	1.16	1.09–1.27	0.001
BMI at transplant	0.99	0.99–1	0.907
MELD at transplant	1	1–1.01	0.004
Cold ischemia (hours)	1.02	1.01–1.03	<0.001
Donor age	1	1–1.01	<0.001
ABO match
Identical	Ref
Compatible	1.05	0.90–1.22	0.493
Incompatible	0.89	0.54–1.46	0.658
Diagnostic
AIH	Ref
PBC	0.82	0.73–0.93	0.001
PSC	0.82	0.74–0.92	0.001
African Americans	1.10	0.98–1.23	0.081

MELD, model for end-stage liver disease. HCC, hepatocellular carcinoma. SHR, subdistribution hazard ratio. CI, confidence interval. REF, reference. AIH, autoimmune hepatitis. PBC, primary biliary cholangitis. PSC, primary sclerosing cholangitis.