Table 8.7

Patients and Annual Death Rates Per 1,000 Patient-Years at Risk, 1994 to 2002

Rates for Recipients in First Year after Kidney-Pancreas Transplants

Race		Year of Transplant
		1994	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002
Total	Patients	746	910	847	841	967	931	907	886	902
	Deaths	65	57	51	43	59	47	44	51	45
	Rate	92.7	65.0	62.7	53.0	63.8	52.4	50.2	60.1	51.7
White	Patients	681	809	744	744	865	815	813	759	781
	Deaths	61	50	45	41	53	41	38	42	36
	Rate	95.4	64.1	62.8	57.3	64.1	52.2	48.3	57.7	47.6
African American	Patients	57	94	90	86	92	103	84	110	104
	Deaths	3	6	6	2	5	6	5	8	9
	Rate	55.4	66.7	70.8	23.7	56.5	60.8	62.9	76.9	92.2
Asian	Patients	5	4	10	8	6	6	4	9	11
	Deaths	1	1	0	0	1	0	0	1	0
	Rate	*	*	0.0	*	*	*	*	*	0.0
Other/Multi-race	Patients	3	3	3	3	4	7	6	8	6
	Deaths	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0
	Rate	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 3, 2004.

Includes patients transplanted during the year and having reported data one-year after transplant.

Time at risk covers the period from transplant date until the date of death or one-year anniversary of the transplant.

See Technical Notes for further details.

(-) = None in category.

(*) = For cohorts with fewer than 10 patients, rates are imprecise and are not reported.