Social Behavior

Studies from Cleveland Clinic have provided new data on social behavior

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, June 14th, 2010

In this recent report published in the journal Transplantation, researchers in the United States conducted a study "To investigate the impact of cardiac donor participation in high-risk social behaviors (HRSBs) on recipient survival. Retrospective chart review queried cardiac transplantations performed at our institution from August 1994 to November 2007 involving donors known to have engaged in HRSBs."

"Kaplan-Meier methodology was used to analyze survival rates, and a Cox proportional hazards regression was performed to determine the impact of donor HRSBs on survival. We identified 143 donors with social histories containing the following HRSBs: incarceration...

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Source: Hepatitis Weekly (2010-06-14)

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