Kids' Liver Transplant Success Varies by Race, Research Shows

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Whites much more likely to survive than blacks, study finds
MONDAY, Dec. 9, 2013 (HealthDay News) -- White children in the United States have higher liver transplant survival rates than blacks and other minority children, a new study finds.

Researchers looked at 208 patients, aged 22 and younger, who received a liver transplant at Children's Hospital of Atlanta between January 1998 and December 2008. Fifty-one percent of the patients were white, 35 percent were black, and 14 percent were other races.

At one, three, five and 10 years after transplant, organ and patient survival was higher among white recipients than among minority recipients, the investigators found. The 10-year organ survival rate was 84 percent among whites, 60 percent among blacks and 49 percent among other races. The 10-year patient survival rate was 92 percent for whites, 65 percent for blacks and 76 percent among other races.
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