. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jul 11.

Published in final edited form as: Perspect Sex Reprod Health. 2011 Jan 13;43(1):51–59. doi: 10.1363/4305111

Table 5.

STD and Sexual Risk Stability and Change by Race-Ethnicity - Weighted Percents

Risk Trajectory	Black (N=460)			White (N=556)			Latino (N=274)

	STD ever	STD last year	Pos. Chl.	STD ever	STD last year	Pos. Chl.	STD ever	STD last year	Pos. Chl.

	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %	Wt. %
Steady Low Risk	18.8^a	1.4	9.6^a	5.1^b	0.8	4.2^b	4.6^ab	0.4	2.2^ab
Peak High Risk	27.7	3.4	7.4^a	17.1	0.2	0.2^b	19.0	0.9	1.0^ab
Downward Risk	29.6^a	6.7^a	6.1^a	6.8^b	0^b	0.7^b	6.1^b	0^b	2.4^ab
Upward Risk	43.8^a	19.0^a	9.7	18.8^b	1.9^b	5.9	16.8^ab	2.7^ab	8.6
Steady High Risk	47.7^a	5.9	15.5	16.2^b	0	0	13.5^b	9.6	0
Total	28.9^a	5.5^a	8.7^a	8.4^b	0.6^b	2.7^b	8^b	0.7^b	2.4^b

Note: Within risk trajectory and STD outcome, race-ethnicity weighted percent columns with different superscripts are statistically significantly different from one another with Tukey adjustments for multiple tests.