Racial and Ethnic Differences in Multimorbidity Changes Over Time.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Our understanding of how multimorbidity progresses and changes is nascent.

Objectives

Assess multimorbidity changes among racially/ethnically diverse middle-aged and older adults.

Design, setting, and participants

Prospective cohort study using latent class analysis to identify multimorbidity combinations over 16 years, and multinomial logistic models to assess change relative to baseline class membership. Health and Retirement Study respondents (age 51 y and above) in 1998 and followed through 2014 (N=17,297).

Measures

Multimorbidity latent classes of: hypertension, heart disease, lung disease, diabetes, cancer, arthritis, stroke, high depressive symptoms.

Results

Three latent classes were identified in 1998: minimal disease (45.8% of partici

SUBMITTER: Quinones AR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8024615 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature