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Table 3 Demographic characteristics of study cohort by degree of suggested cognitive impairment

From: Prevalence of frailty and cognitive impairment in older transplant candidates - a preview to the Kidney Transplantation in Older People (KTOP): impact of frailty on outcomes study

Characteristic

No Cognitive impairment

N = 110 (%)

Cognitive Impairment

N = 63 (%)

P value

Age (mean, range) (years)

65.2 (60–78)

66.1 (60–77)

0.194

Gender

Male

73 (66.4)

41 (65.1)

0.864

Female

37 (33.6)

22 (34.9)

 

Ethnicity

South Asian

41 (37.3)

40 (63.5)

< 0.0001

Caucasian

39 (35.5)

6 (9.5)

 

Afro-Caribbean

21 (19.1)

8 (12.7)

 

Middle Eastern

4 (3.6)

6 (9.5)

 

East Asian

5 (4.6)

3 (4.8)

 

Modality

ICHD

86 (78.2)

57 (90.48)

0.023

Home-HD

0

1 (1.6)

 

PD

17 (15.5)

5 (8)

 

AKCC

7 (6.4)

0

 

KRT Vintage (mean, LQ-UQ)

993 (200–1301)

1000 (481–1344)

0.9703

Previously transplanted

26 (23.6)

9 (14.3)

0.141

Charlson Co-morbidity Index score (mean, LQ-UQ)

5.8 (5–7)

6.2 (5–8)

0.07

Diabetes

54 (49.1)

40 (63.5)

0.067

Peripheral Vascular Disease

5 (4.6)

1 (1.6)

0.418

Hypertension

90 (81.8)

58 (92.1)

0.065

Ischaemic Heart Disease

48 (43.6)

33 (52.4)

0.267

Cerebrovascular Accident

13 (11.8)

11 (17.5)

0.362

Nottingham Activities of Daily Living Score (mean, range)

17 (2–22)

14.4 (4–21)

0.0016

Depressive symptoms present

41 (37.6)

31 (50.8)

0.034

Educational age (mean, range) (years)

19.2 (12–40)

17.4 (0–36)

0.0212

  1. Results presented as n (%) unless otherwise stated. KRT Kidney replacement therapy, ICHD In centre haemodialysis, HD Haemodialysis, PD Peritoneal dialsysis, AKCC Advanced kidney care clinic, LQ Lower quartile, UQ Upper quartile. P values calculated using t-tests for continuous variables, and Chi-sqare or Fisher’s exact testing for categorical variables (determined by the number of observations per group)