Table 3.

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Changing to Multisystem Multimorbidity, Deceased, or Lost-to-Follow up status by 2014, by Initial Multimorbidity Class in 1998.

	% Changing to MULTISYSTEM Class in 2014
Class in 1998	Total		Black		Hispanic		White
MINIMAL	15.00		13.36		13.43		15.22
CV-MSK	19.91		18.43*		24.86		19.76***
CV-MSK-MENTAL	18.76		24.12***		19.79***		17.96***
	% Changing to DECEASED by 2014
	Total		Black		Hispanic		White
MINIMAL	33.73		37.51		29.83		33.73
CV-MSK	48.32		49.08*		40.69**		48.77***
CV-MSK-MENTAL	76.41		72.75**		74.84*		77.01***
	% Changing to LOST TO FOLLOW-UP by 2014
	Total		Black		Hispanic		White
MINIMAL	7.37		4.48		7.96		7.54
CV-MSK	5.96		3.30**		4.54*		6.47***
CV-MSK-MENTAL	3.55		2.01***		3.82***		3.74***

Abbreviations: MINIMAL= Minimal Disease; CV-MSK= Cardiovascular-Musculoskeletal; CV-MSK-MENTAL= Cardiovascular-Musculoskeletal-Mental; MULTISYSTEM= Multisystem. Notes: MINIMAL class is referent category for significance tests conducted within racial/ethnic group to each status in 2014,

^*p < .05,

^**p <.01,

^***p<.001.

For example, 18.43% of Black participants move from CV-MSK in 1998 to MULTISYSTEM in 2014, and are significantly more likely to move to MULTISYSTEM 2014 relative to Black participants in MINIMAL 1998.