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Table 11.4

Transplant Recipient Characteristics, 1999 to 2008

Heart Recipients

Recipient Ethnicity/Race	Year of Transplant
Recipient Ethnicity/Race	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008
Total	2,188	2,199	2,202	2,155	2,057	2,015	2,125	2,193	2,209	2,163
White	1,702	1,697	1,641	1,619	1,485	1,419	1,486	1,497	1,492	1,417
African American	322	293	314	306	337	339	375	413	425	437
Other/Multi-race	10	14	9	15	15	19	21	17	15	23
Asian	45	48	57	54	48	57	74	68	70	71
Hispanic/Latino	109	147	181	161	172	181	169	198	207	215
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	77.8%	77.2%	74.5%	75.1%	72.2%	70.4%	69.9%	68.3%	67.5%	65.5%
African American	14.7%	13.3%	14.3%	14.2%	16.4%	16.8%	17.6%	18.8%	19.2%	20.2%
Other/Multi-race	0.5%	0.6%	0.4%	0.7%	0.7%	0.9%	1.0%	0.8%	0.7%	1.1%
Asian	2.1%	2.2%	2.6%	2.5%	2.3%	2.8%	3.5%	3.1%	3.2%	3.3%
Hispanic/Latino	5.0%	6.7%	8.2%	7.5%	8.4%	9.0%	8.0%	9.0%	9.4%	9.9%

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

(-) = None in category.

These data include multi-organ transplants, other than heart-lung, in which a deceased donor heart was one of the organs transplanted.

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