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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Addict. 2011 Jul 18;20(5):468–475. doi: 10.1111/j.1521-0391.2011.00156.x

Table 1.

Mean (SD) drinking habit measures, AUDIT Score, and estimated BAC for At-Risk and Non-Risk Drinkers.

At-Risk Drinkers (n=143) Non-Risk Drinkers (n=108) Significance
AUDIT 10.9 (3.8) 3.8 (2.1) **
Drinks 6.0 (2.2) 3.0 (1.7) **
Dose 1.4 (0.5) 0.7 (0.4) **
BAC 94.3 (56.8) 35.4 (32.3) **
Duration 4.2 (1.3) 2.9 (1.5) **
Frequency 2.5 (1.3) 1.0 (0.8) **
History 66.9 (26.8) 65.7 (42.6) ns
Body Weight 74.1 (14.5) 77.0 (17.8) ns

AUDIT: total score. Drinks: number of standard drinks; Dose: milliliters of absolute alcohol per kilogram of body weight; BAC: calculated blood alcohol concentration mg/dl; Duration: length, in hours, of a drinking occasion; Frequency: number of drinking occasions per week; History: period since onset of regular alcohol use in months; Body weight in kg. At-risk status determined by AUDIT cut-scores of 8+/6+ (men/women). Group differences based on independent samples t tests

*

p<0.05,

**

p<0.01, ns=nonsignificant.