The Impact of the Share 35 Policy on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Access to Liver Transplantation for Patients with End Stage Liver Disease in the United States: An Analysis from UNOS Database

Table 3 Cox proportional hazard regression results for the waiting time before liver transplantation among patients registered on waiting list: Pre-Share 35 vs. Post-Share 35 time periods, 2012-2015

	Pre-Share 35 (n = 7450)	Post-Share 35 (n = 7476)
	Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)^a	Hazard Ratio (95% Confidence Interval)^a
White	1.00 (reference)	1.00 (reference)
AA	0.82 (0.61–1.09)	0.81 (0.60–1.10)
Hispanic	0.66 (0.53–0.82)	0.69 (0.53–0.88)

AA African American, BMI body mass index, MELD model for end-stage liver disease
^aHazard ratios adjusted for age, gender, BMI, diagnosis, MELD score at listing, median household income, and health insurance status

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