作者
Charat Thongprayoon, Pradeep Vaitla, Caroline C Jadlowiec, Napat Leeaphorn, Shennen A Mao, Michael A Mao, Pattharawin Pattharanitima, Jackrapong Bruminhent, Nadeen J Khoury, Vesna D Garovic, Matthew Cooper, Wisit Cheungpasitporn
发表日期
2022/7/1
期刊
JAMA surgery
卷号
157
期号
7
页码范围
e221286-e221286
出版商
American Medical Association
简介
Importance
Among kidney transplant recipients, Black patients continue to have worse graft function and reduced patient and graft survival. Better understanding of different phenotypes and subgroups of Black kidney transplant recipients may help the transplant community to identify individualized strategies to improve outcomes among these vulnerable groups.
Objective
To cluster Black kidney transplant recipients in the US using an unsupervised machine learning approach.
Design, Setting, and Participants
This cohort study performed consensus cluster analysis based on recipient-, donor-, and transplant-related characteristics in Black kidney transplant recipients in the US from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2019, in the Organ Procurement and Transplantation Network/United Network for Organ Sharing database. Each cluster’s key characteristics were identified using the standardized mean difference, and …
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