Table 3.

The Clinical Course of Lifetime DSM-IV Alcohol Dependence (AD) Among Individuals by Gender

Characteristic	Male n = 2,974			Femalea N = 1,807			F-test	p-Value
	Mean	95% CI		Mean	95% CI
Age at first drink, years	16.57	16.42	16.72	17.40	17.14	17.66	33.60	<0.0001
Age of onset of heavy drinking, yearsb	23.47	23.08	23.86	23.57	23.08	24.05	0.13	0.7245
Time from age at first drink to age of heavy drinking, years	6.94	6.57	7.32	6.33	5.91	6.74	5.77	0.0192
Time from age of heavy drinking to age at onset of AD, years	0.36	0.09	0.62	0.35	0.01	0.69	<0.01	0.9803
Time from age at first drink to age of onset of AD, years	7.31	6.93	7.69	6.89	6.43	7.35	2.22	0.1411
Age at onset of AD, years	23.90	23.50	24.30	24.36	23.84	24.87	2.23	0.1402
Age at remission of AD, yearsc	31.82	31.06	32.58	29.59	28.76	30.41	17.04	0.0001
Number of Episodes	2.28	2.02	2.54	1.87	1.69	2.06	6.67	0.0121
Total number of criteria	4.78	4.72	4.84	4.63	4.55	4.72	8.42	0.0051
Duration of longest episode, month	42.13	38.79	45.46	29.69	27.22	32.15	38.34	<0.0001

	%	95% CI		%	95% CI		OR	95% CI
Remission	42.77	40.47	45.11	42.78	40.00	45.60	1.00	0.87	1.15

^aReference group.

^bAmong heavy drinkers.

^cAmong individuals who remitted.

Bolded: p-value < 0.05.