22 June 2021 : Original article
Shift in Living Kidney Donor Demographics Over the Past 50 Years in a German Transplant Center
Claudia Sommerer1ACDEF*, Zoi Bougioukou1BCDEF, Vasileios L. Georgiou2CD, Arianeb Mehrabi3E, Martin Zeier1EDOI: 10.12659/AOT.929693
Ann Transplant 2021; 26:e929693
Table 2 Demographics of living kidney donors from 1967 to 2016.
| Number of valid values (%760) | All1967–2016 | 1967–1990 | 1991–2000 | 2001–2010 | 2011–2016 | p | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Living donation, n (%) | 760 (100) | 760 (22.1) | 51 (5.2) | 103 (16.4) | 342 (31.5) | 264 (35.3) | <0.001 |
| Gender, female, n (%) | 753 (98.9) | 449 (59.5) | 34 (70.8) | 60 (60.0) | 207 (60.5) | 148 (56.3) | 0.278 |
| Age, mean (SD) | 736 (99.8) | 59 (11.4) | 34.9 (11.5) | 46.1 (10.1) | 47.9 (11.1) | 53.2 (10.2) | <0.001 |
| Age ≥65 years, n (%) | 736 (99.8) | 59 (8) | 0 (0) | 3 (3.6) | 26 (7.6) | 30 (11.4) | 0.016 |
| BMI, mean (SD) | 660 (86.8) | 26 (4.1) | 22.9 (3.4) | 24.3 (3.4) | 26.0 (4.4) | 26.6 (3.7) | <0.001 |
| BMI ≥30 kg/m, n (%) | 660 (86.8) | 107 (16.2) | 0 (0) | 3 (5.4) | 55 (16.4) | 49 (18.6) | 0.072 |
| Smoker, n (%) | 626 (82.3) | 206 (32.9) | 1 (20) | 15 (27) | 97 (31) | 93 (37) | 0.96 |
| Family history of kidney disease or impaired renal function, n (%) | 655 (90.6) | 40 (6.1) | 0 (0.0) | 1 (1.9) | 15 (4.4) | 24 (9.1) | <0.001 |
| Relationship, n (%) | 732 (96.3) | <0.001 | |||||
| Spouse | 184 (25.1) | 1 (2.6) | 5 (5.1) | 85 (25.5) | 93 (35.4) | ||
| Parent to child | 330 (45.1) | 26 (68.4) | 77 (78.6) | 141 (42.3) | 86 (32.7) | ||
| Child to parent | 25 (3.4) | 0 (0) | 2 (2.0) | 7 (2.1) | 16 (6.1) | ||
| Siblings | 122 (16.7) | 11 (28.9) | 12 (12.2) | 66 (19.8) | 33 (12.5) | ||
| Other, related | 27 (3.7) | 0 (0.0) | 0 (0.0) | 15 (4.5) | 12 (4.6) | ||
| Other, not related | 44 (6) | 0 (0) | 2 (2.0) | 19 (5.7) | 23 (8.7) | ||
| Place of residence outside Germany, n (%) | 715 (94) | 61 (8.5) | 1 (9.1) | 5 (5.1) | 35 (10.2) | 20 (7.6) | 0.376 |
| BMI – body mass index; n – number; p – significance; SD – standard deviation. | |||||||