Table 1.

Demographic and clinical data in healthy controls (HC) and alcohol-dependent (AD) group

	HC	AD
N	16	48
Number of women (n)	3	9
Age (yrs)	35.6 (10.6)	36.4 (10.9)
Education (yrs)	15.5 (2.0)	13.2 (2.1)
Race (n)	16 C	33 C, 11 AA, 4H
Employed (%)	68.7 (4.8)	43.7 (5.0)
Short Inventory of Problems	0.07 (0.27)	13.2 (10.9)
Age of onset of drinking problem	–	20.7 (9.3)
Duration of problem drinking (yrs)	–	16.1 (11.8)
Obsessive-Compulsive Drinking Scale	–	8.2 (6.2)
Past history of MDD (n), (%)		6 (12.5%)

Bold font indicates group difference P < 0.05 by t-test. C, Caucasian; AA, African American; H, Hispanic.