Socio-economic position and childhood multimorbidity: a study using linkage between the Avon Longitudinal study of parents and children and the general practice research database

Table 2 ACGs at ages 5, 10 and 15

ACG	Age 5¹	Age 10¹	Age 15¹
Non-user	68 (22.6%)	119 (28.7%)	78 (17.9%)
No diagnoses	19 (6.3%)	77 (18.6%)	99 (22.8%)
Acute minor	62 (20.6%)	67 (16.2%)	67 (15.4%)
Acute minor and likely to recur (with or without allergies)	58 (19.3%)	26 (6.3%)	23 (5.3%)
Likely to recur (with or without allergies)	29 (9.6%)	38 (9.2%)	46 (10.6%)
Acute minor and major	13 (4.3%)	18 (4.4%)	9 (2.1%)
Acute major	6 (2.0%)	11 (2.7%)	24 (5.5%)
2–3 other ADGs	16 (5.3%)	16 (3.9%)	29 (6.7%)
Other ACGs	30 (10.0%)	42 (10.1%)	60 (13.8%)
	301	414	435
Resource Utilisation Band
Non-user	68 (22.6%)	119 (28.7%)	78 (17.9%)
Healthy user²	87 (28.9%)	150 (36.2%)	177 (40.7%)
Low morbidity²	124 (41.2%)	131 (31.6%)	151 (34.7%)
Moderate morbidity²	22 (7.3%)	14 (3.4%)	28 (6.4%)
High morbidity²	0	0	1 (0.2%)
Very high morbidity²	0	0	0
	301	414	435

¹ Or at ages 4 or 6, 9 or 11, and 14 or 16, if data not available at ages 5, 10 and 15, respectively.
² ACGs occurring in these data that fall into these categories are as follows:
Healthy user: no diagnoses, acute minor, eye and dental, preventive/administrative.
Low morbidity: acute major, likely to recur (with or without allergies), asthma, chronic medical (stable), chronic specialty (stable or unstable), psychosocial (stable), acute minor & major, acute minor & likely to recur (with or without eye & dental in addition to these), acute minor and chronic medical (stable), acute minor & psychosocial (stable), 2–3 other ADG combinations.
Moderate morbidity: Acute major & likely to recur, acute minor & likely to recur & psychosocial, psychosocial (unstable), acute minor & major & likely to recur (with or without stable chronic medical or psychosocial in addition to these), acute minor & psychosocial (unstable), 4-5/6-9 other ADGs (none major).
High morbidity: pregnancy plus 2–3 ADGs (none major), delivered.
Very high morbidity: N/A – none occurred in these data.

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