Research Article
Long-Term Outcomes of Recipients of Liver Transplants from Living Donors Treated with a Very Low-Calorie Diet
Table 1
Donor characteristics before donation.
| | n = 199 | Non-VLCD donors n = 165 | VLCD donors n = 34 | P value |
| | Sex, female, n (%) | 102 (62.2%) | 20 (58.8%) | 0.4 | | Age at donation (years), median (IQR) | 35 (27–44) | 33 (29–43) | 0.8 | | BMI at donation (kg/m2), median (IQR) | 25.2 (22.6–27.7) | 28.1 (26.5–29.7) | <0.01 | | AST before donation (IU/L), median (IQR) | 18 (15–22) | 19 (15–22) | 0.7 | | ALT before donation (IU/L), median (IQR) | 18 (15–22) | 20.5 (14–25) | 0.3 | | Total bilirubin before donation (μmol/L), median (IQR) | 10 (7–13) | 9.5 (7–17) | 0.8 | | INR before donation, median (IQR) | 0.9 (0.9–1) | 1 (1–1.1) | <0.01 |
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The Mann–Whitney U test was used for continuous variables and the exact Fisher test for categorical variables.
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