Table 2.

Telomere length in alcohol abusers and controls.

	Alcohol abusers	Controls	Statistics
	n=200	n=257	P value Unadjusted	P-value Adjusted†
Telomere length (T/S)
Geometric mean (range)*	0.43(0.20–1.11)	0.87(0.30–4.84)	<0.0001	<0.0001
N (%) ≤ 5° percentile TL value of controls (0.38 T/S)	59 (30)	14( 5)	<0.0001	0.0005

^*Unadjusted geometric means. Geometric means adjusted by age, BMI, current smoking, vegetables, and job at elevated risk of accident were 0.42 in alcohol abusers and 0.87 in controls.

^†Adjusted by age, BMI, current smoking, vegetables, job at elevated risk of accident