Table 3.

Racial/ethnic differences in the odds of alcohol-related problems by heavy drinking level, current drinkers only

	Black-White Comparisons			Hispanic-White Comparisons
Heavy drinking level	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
	1+ Social Consequences
None/Low (n=2,770)	3.66** (1.92–7.00)	4.39** (2.22–8.69)	3.52** (1.62–7.67)	3.91** (2.09–7.31)	3.91** (2.09–7.31)	3.67** (1.74–7.77)
Moderate (n=832)	1.81 (0.88–3.72)	2.01† (0.98–4.12)	1.47 (0.74–2.91)	1.59 (0.92–2.77)	1.50 (0.84–2.66)	1.47 (0.81–2.69)
High (n=405)	1.53 (0.74–3.17)	1.38 (0.65–2.92)	1.60 (0.72–3.59)	0.73 (0.41–1.30)	0.79 (0.43–1.46)	0.85 (0.44–1.64)
	2+ Dependence Symptoms
None/Low (n=2,770)	5.53** (1.87–16.30)	7.00** (2.27–21.62)	5.73* (1.25–26.21)	4.80** (1.73–13.13)	4.64** (1.63–13.18)	3.51* (1.23–10.04)
Moderate (n=832)	4.10** (1.95–8.58)	5.07** (2.32–11.11)	4.72** (2.06–10.81)	2.24* (1.15–4.36)	2.11* (1.05–4.25)	2.33* (1.13–4.79)
High (n=405)	1.30 (0.63–2.68)	1.09 (0.51–2.36)	1.07 (0.44–2.58)	1.04 (0.58–1.86)	1.24 (0.67–2.30)	1.06 (0.53–2.09)

ORs and 95% confidence intervals shown for blacks, and Hispanics, vs. whites (ref)

Model 1: crude OR, no controls

Model 2: adjusting for heavy drinking score

Model 3: adjusting for heavy drinking score + demographics (gender, age, education, marital and employment status)

^†p<0.1,

^*p<0.05,

^**p<0.01