Diagnosis of morbid obesity may not impact healthcare utilization for orthotopic liver transplantation: A propensity matched study

Table 1 Demographic and hospital characteristics in morbidly obese and non-morbidly obese patients who underwent a liver transplant

	No morbid obesity		Morbid obesity		P-value
	n = 45691		n = 818
Age (mean, CI)	53.23	(52.84, 53.61)	53.33	(52.05, 54.61)	0.87
Gender					0.002
Male	30444	66.64%	435	53.21%
Female	15242	33.36%	383	46.79%
Race					0.002
White	25668	67.81%	544	75.15%
Black	2975	7.86%	32	4.49%
Hispanic	5638	14.90%	127	17.60%
Other	3571	9.43%	20	2.75%
Income (National Quartile)					0.04
Low	9947	22.46%	258	32.30%
Moderate	11190	25.27%	213	26.63%
High	11816	26.69%	167	20.87%
Very high	11324	25.58%	161	20.20%
Type of insurance					0.11
Medicare	11817	25.99%	246	30.10%
Medicaid	6487	14.27%	74	8.99%
Private	24983	54.95%	441	53.93%
Other	2179	4.79%	57	6.97%
Type of hospital					0.95
Rural/urban non-teaching	233	0.51%	< 10	0.48%
Urban teaching	45069	99.49%	814	99.52%
Hospital size					0.25
Small/medium	6492	14.33%	88	10.74%
Large	38809	85.67%	730	89.26%
Hospital region					0.43
Northeast	7865	17.21%	118	14.42%
Midwest	9953	21.78%	206	25.24%
South	15116	33.08%	319	39.02%
West	12757	27.92%	174	21.32%
Admission day					0.02
Week day	34444	75.39%	668	81.72%
Weekend	11247	24.62%	149	18.28%
Modified elixhauser index1					< 0.01
< 3	25123	54.98%	131	16.06%
≥ 3	20568	45.02%	686	83.94%

¹After excluding liver failure and obesity.