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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Oct 17.
Published in final edited form as: Drug Alcohol Depend. 2005 Dec 15;83(3):199–209. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2005.11.013

Table 4.

Odds ratios (95% CI) of the association of risky problem drinking (Class 2) and regular problem drinking (Class 3) relative to non-problem drinking (Class 1) based on unadjusted and adjusted multinomial latent class logistic regression models

Risky problem drinkers (Class 2) vs. non-problem drinkers (Class 1)
Regular problem drinkers (Class 3) vs. non-problem drinkers (Class 1)
Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI) Unadjusted OR (95% CI) Adjusted OR (95% CI)
Sex (male vs. female) 1.0 (0.7, 1.3) 2.3 (1.8, 2.9)* 3.1 (2.4, 4.0)* 3.5 (2.5, 5.0)*
Age (18−20 vs. 16−17) 0.5 (0.3, 0.7)* 1.2 (0.9, 1.5) 2.3 (1.8, 3.0)* 2.2 (1.6, 3.2)*
Current cigarette use 2.1 (1.6, 2.7)* 2.8 (2.2, 3.6)* 5.0 (4.0, 6.2)* 3.2 (2.3, 4.6)*
Current marijuana use 3.2 (2.4, 4.5)* 4.0 (2.8, 5.6)* 10.8 (8.9, 13.2)* 10.2 (6.9, 15.2)*
Early onset drinking 2.3 (1.8, 3.0)* 2.2 (1.7, 2.8)* 5.0 (3.9, 6.5)* 4.2 (3.0, 5.8)*
Most peers in community drink 1.3 (1.1, 1.7)* 1.0 (0.8, 1.3) 3.4 (2.6, 4.4)* 1.4 (0.9, 2.0)
Most friends drink 2.1 (1.6, 2.7)* 4.0 (3.1, 5.1)* 16.4 (12.3, 22.0)* 10.8 (7.0, 16.7)*
Most friends get drunk weekly 1.6 (1.0, 2.6) 2.0 (1.3, 3.1)* 20.7 (14.7, 29.0)* 10.6 (6.9, 16.2)*
Parents yell/punish if caught drinking 1.7 (1.2, 2.4)* 1.2 (0.9, 1.5) 0.5 (0.4, 0.6)* 1.1 (0.8, 1.5)
*

p ≤ 0.05.