title: Profile of the average organ non-donor: can it be used predictively?
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To describe the profile of the average organ non-donor, compare it to that of the average donor, and identify characteristics that predict the likelihood that a given individual will be a non-donor.
  
  
  METHODS
  The charts of 397 consenting potential organ donors of LifeLink of Puerto Rico from 2009 through 2011 were reviewed. Data regarding gender, age, BMI, the presence of diabetes, hypertension and/or kidney injury, death from cerebrovascular accident, and smoking were collected.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Of the 397 charts reviewed, 283 were from donors, 96 were from non-donors, and 18 were excluded from the analysis. When compared to donors, non-donors were found more frequently to be 60 years old or older, diabetic, hypertensive, or obese; to have suffered from kidney injury, to have smoked and to have died of a cerebrovascular accident. On multivariate analysis, age, diabetes, kidney injury and smoking remained significant. However, after adjusting for age, only smoking and death from cerebrovascular accident remained statistically associated to non-donor status.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Although being over 60 years old, having smoked and dying from a cerebrovascular accident were characteristics found significantly more frequently in non-donors, these characteristics were also present in some donors. Therefore, a careful evaluation of each potential donor is still mandatory to avoid the loss of transplantable organs.
authors.forename: Esther A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Torres
authors.forename: Namyr A
authors.initials: NA
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Patricia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Martínez
authors.forename: Alondra M
authors.initials: AM
authors.lastname: Ayala
authors.forename: Daniel
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Millián
authors.forename: Celia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Rivera
authors.forename: Marien
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Saadé
authors.forename: Jean
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Davis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001294:Attitude to Health; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005544:Forecasting; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011336:Probability; D014019:Tissue Donors / Q000523:psychology; D009927:Tissue and Organ Procurement; D055815:Young Adult