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Table 12.1a

Waiting List Patient Characteristics at End of Year

Lung Waiting List

Active Waitlist Patients, 1998 to 2007

Ethnicity/Race	Year
Ethnicity/Race	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007
Total	2,277	2,429	2,484	2,417	2,281	2,315	2,163	1,052	1,031	1,005
White	1,970	2,078	2,098	2,022	1,896	1,935	1,801	899	881	840
African American	191	236	242	241	224	219	213	78	84	91
Other/Multi-race	6	5	5	6	8	12	12	10	6	5
Asian	23	28	35	35	41	32	23	14	12	15
Hispanic/Latino	87	82	104	113	109	117	114	51	48	54
Unknown	-	-	-	-	3	-	-	-	-	-
Total (%)	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%	100.0%
White	86.5%	85.5%	84.5%	83.7%	83.1%	83.6%	83.3%	85.5%	85.5%	83.6%
African American	8.4%	9.7%	9.7%	10.0%	9.8%	9.5%	9.8%	7.4%	8.1%	9.1%
Other/Multi-race	0.3%	0.2%	0.2%	0.2%	0.4%	0.5%	0.6%	1.0%	0.6%	0.5%
Asian	1.0%	1.2%	1.4%	1.4%	1.8%	1.4%	1.1%	1.3%	1.2%	1.5%
Hispanic/Latino	3.8%	3.4%	4.2%	4.7%	4.8%	5.1%	5.3%	4.8%	4.7%	5.4%
Unknown	-	-	-	-	0.1%	-	-	-	-	-

Source: OPTN/SRTR Data as of May 1, 2008.

(%) = 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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