Table 3.

Effects of earlier life heavy drinking on health conditions, before and after propensity-score matching

	Lifetime abstainer vs. never heavy	Less heavy vs. never heavy	Young heavy vs. never heavy	Heavy 30s vs. never heavy
n of matched pairs	569	564	374	361
Heart problem
Before matching
Exposure group,aM (SE)	0.157 (0.014)	0.133 (0.014)	0.134 (0.016)	0.184 (0.017)*
Control group,bM (SE)	0.148 (0.008)	0.148 (0.008)	0.148 (0.008)	0.148 (0.008)
Difference, M	0.009 (0.016)	−0.016 (0.016)	−0.014 (0.019)	0.036 (0.018)*
Odds ratio [95% CI]	1.07 [0.83, 1.37]	0.88 [0.67, 1.14]	0.89 [0.66, 1.21]	1.30 [1.00, 1.68]*
After matching
Exposure group,aM (SE)	0.151 (0.015)	0.138 (0.015)	0.136 (0.018)	0.169 (0.020)
Control group,bM (SE)	0.183 (0.016)	0.142 (0.015)	0.155 (0.019)	0.180 (0.020)
Difference, M	−0.032 (0.022)	−0.004 (0.021)	−0.019 (0.025)	−0.011 (0.029)
Odds ratio [95% CI]	0.80 [0.58, 1.09]	0.97 [0.70, 1.35]	0.85 [0.56, 1.30]	0.93 [0.64, 1.35]
Diabetes
Before matching
Exposure group,aM (SE)	0.216 (0.016)	0.086 (0.011)	0.122 (0.016)	0.147 (0.016)
Control group,bM (SE)	0.117 (0.007)	0.117 (0.007)	0.117 (0.007)	0.117 (0.007)
Difference, M	0.100 (0.018)***	−0.030 (0.014)*	0.006 (0.017)	0.006 (0.017)
Odds ratio [95% CI]	2.09 [1.65, 2.64]***	0.71 [0.52, 0.98]*	1.06 [0.77, 1.45]	1.30 [0.98, 1.73]
After matching
Exposure group,aM (SE)	0.211 (0.017)	0.089 (0.012)	0.126 (0.017)	0.133 (0.018)
Control group,bM (SE)	0.148 (0.015)	0.115 (0.013)	0.112 (0.016)	0.139 (0.018)
Difference, M	0.063 (0.023)**	−0.027 (0.018)	0.013 (0.024)	−0.006 (0.025)
Odds ratio [95% CI]	1.54 [1.13, 2.09]**	0.76 [0.52, 1.11]	1.13 [0.73, 1.74]	0.95 [0.62, 1.47]
Hypertension
Before matching
Exposure group,aM (SE)	0.456 (0.020)	0.327 (0.019)	0.314 (0.022)	0.314 (0.022)
Control group,bM (SE)	0.409 (0.011)	0.409 (0.011)	0.409 (0.011)	0.409 (0.011)
Difference, M	0.047 (0.023)*	−0.081 (0.022)***	−0.095 (0.026)***	0.050 (0.025)*
Odds ratio [95% CI])	1.21 [1.01, 1.45]*	0.70 [0.58, 0.85]***	0.66 [0.52, 0.83]***	1.23 [1.01, 1.49]*
After matching
Exposure group,aM (SE)	0.450 (0.021)	0.344 (0.020)	0.318 (0.024)	0.446 (0.026)
Control group,bM (SE)	0.473 (0.021)	0.333 (0.020)	0.329 (0.024)	0.421 (0.026)
Difference, M	−0.023 (0.029)	0.011 (0.029)	−0.011 (0.033)	0.025 (0.035)
Odds ratio [95% CI]	0.91 [0.71, 1.15]	1.04 [0.82, 1.32]	0.95 [0.69, 1.30]	1.12 [0.82, 1.53]

^aExposure groups for the four comparisons are lifetime abstainers, less heavy, young heavy, and heavy 30s, respectively;

^bcontrol group is never heavy for all four comparisons.

^*p < .05;

^**p < .01;

^***p < .001.