USA: organ donation facts

3/23/2010 - "Facts on organ donations among blacks:

• Blacks make up 11 percent of Pennsylvania's overall population but represent nearly 32 percent of the state's residents waiting for organ donor transplants.

• Of more than 2,550 blacks waiting for transplants in the state, 89 percent are waiting for kidney transplants.

• 24.4 percent of blacks waiting for tranplants are between the ages of 50 and 64, and 28.6 percent are between the ages of 35 and 49.

Source: Pennsylvania Department of Health Donate Life campaign"