16 January 2024: Original Paper
Immediate Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Heart and Kidney Transplantation and the Recovery Trends in 30 Developed and Less-Developed Countries
Mohammad Islam 1CDE , Bryson Edwards 2BDFG , Jeffrey Goddard 2BDG , Ruhul H. Kuddus 2ACDEFG*DOI: 10.12659/AOT.942188
Ann Transplant 2024; 29:e942188
Table 4 Kendall Tau association between economic variables and numbers of heart and kidney transplants. The high P values (shown in parentheses) indicate a lack of a significant association between economic indicators and heart and kidney transplantation.
| Economic variable | Transplant | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heart | LDK | DDK | LDK+DDK | |
| Real GDP growth | 0.02 (0.88) | 0.18 (0.21) | 0.01 (0.94) | 0.16 (0.27) |
| Inflation rate | −0.20 (0.17) | −0.14 (0.36) | −0.08 (0.58) | −0.22 (0.13) |
| Unemployment rate | 0.01 (0.96) | −0.03 (0.84) | 0.08 (0.60) | −0.04 (0.80) |
| Current account balance | 0.09 (0.54) | 0.05 (0.71) | −0.04 (0.80) | 0.08 (0.60) |
| Current Govt gross debt | 0.21 (0.16) | 0.15 (0.31) | 0.26 (0.08) | 0.16 (0.29) |
| GDP – gross domestic product; DDK – deceased donor kidney; LDK – live donor kidney; Govt – government. | ||||