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Table 11.1a

Waiting List Patient Characteristics at End of Year

Heart Waiting List

Active Waitlist Patients, 1999 to 2008

Ethnicity/Race	Year
Ethnicity/Race	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	2,477	2,420	2,255	2,054	1,808	1,588	1,329	1,323	1,406	1,684
White	1,964	1,921	1,779	1,576	1,354	1,162	963	977	1,034	1,222
African American	332	330	301	301	270	258	240	233	234	305
Other/Multi-race	11	7	7	12	10	13	7	8	14	13
Asian	21	24	40	34	34	27	21	24	22	23
Hispanic/Latino	149	138	128	131	140	128	98	81	102	121
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	79.3%	79.4%	78.9%	76.7%	74.9%	73.2%	72.5%	73.8%	73.5%	72.6%
African American	13.4%	13.6%	13.3%	14.7%	14.9%	16.2%	18.1%	17.6%	16.6%	18.1%
Other/Multi-race	0.4%	0.3%	0.3%	0.6%	0.6%	0.8%	0.5%	0.6%	1.0%	0.8%
Asian	0.8%	1.0%	1.8%	1.7%	1.9%	1.7%	1.6%	1.8%	1.6%	1.4%
Hispanic/Latino	6.0%	5.7%	5.7%	6.4%	7.7%	8.1%	7.4%	6.1%	7.3%	7.2%

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 4, 2009.

(%) = Percentages are based on totals including missing and unknown.

(-) = None in category.

Includes patients listed as active status at end of year.

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