INS and diabetes mellitus: Recipient characteristics (age, BMI, sex, ethnicity, duration of diabetes, HbA1C at the time of registration, insulin use at the time of registration, and sensitization) and transplant characteristics (level of HLA mismatch, cold ischemia time, anastomosis time, exocrine drainage technique, induction immunosuppression, and proportion of re-transplants) were comparable between the two groups.