Table 2.

Odds of alcohol consumption, nicotine consumption, high BMI, and ‘unhealthy behaviors’ in non-Hispanic U.S.-born Blacks (N=6, 065) compared to non-Hispanic U.S.-born Whites (N=19,216) at low, moderate, and high levels of stress

	No stressful life events (N=7274)			1-2 stressful life events (N=11832)			Three or more stressful life events (N=6175)
	Blacks	Whites		Blacks	Whites		Blacks	Whites
	N=1531	N=5743		N=2786	N=9046		N=1748	N=4427
	%	%	AOR (95% C.I.)	%	%	AOR (95% C.I.)	%	%	AOR (95% C.I.)
Alcohol consumption
Alcohol abuse/dependence or at least weekly binge drinking	7.58	8.46	0.55 (0.39-0.79)	8.59	10.85	0.57 (0.45-0.72)	16.49	21.40	0.50 (0.40-0.63)
Non-pathological and less than weekly binge drinking	37.12	56.74	0.45 (0.37-0.55)	43.03	59.06	0.52 (0.45-0.59)	48.72	58.43	0.52 (0.43-0.61)
Alcohol abstention	55.30	34.80	1.00	48.37	30.09	1.00	34.79	20.17	1.00
Nicotine consumption
Nicotine dependent	5.31	7.65	0.54 (0.39-0.74)	9.12	12.04	0.56 (0.46-0.69)	15.36	26.99	0.35 (0.28-0.42)
Non-dependent nicotine use	13.73	12.66	0.83 (0.67-1.03)	15.17	13.31	0.90 (0.74-1.08)	13.46	14.26	0.63 (0.52-0.78)
Nicotine abstention	80.96	79.69	1.00	75.71	74.65	1.00	71.18	58.75	1.00
BMI
≥35	11.09	6.26	2.38 (1.78-3.19)	13.97	7.29	2.43 (1.94-3.04)	17.56	10.29	2.16 (1.74-2.68)
>25-<35	55.98	49.41	1.82 (1.49-2.21)	55.58	51.07	1.55 (1.32-1.83)	50.00	46.24	1.62 (1.33-1.96)
≤25	32.93	44.33	1.00	30.45	41.64	1.00	32.44	43.47	1.00
Unhealthy behavior count
Four or more	6.11	5.57	0.85 (0.56-1.28)	8.39	8.75	0.69 (0.52-0.92)	15.09	20.86	0.33 (0.24-0.45)
One to three	76.79	80.81	1.00 (0.71-1.10)	79.54	81.82	0.82 (0.67-1.01)	75.36	74.07	0.55 (0.43-0.71)
None	17.10	13.61	1.00	12.07	9.42	1.00	9.55	5.13	1.00

Bold text indicates statistical significance at p<0.05

AOR = odds ratio adjusted for age, sex, past-year personal income, education, and region of residence