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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 3.
Published in final edited form as: Twin Res Hum Genet. 2013 Apr;16(2):525–534. doi: 10.1017/thg.2013.11

TABLE 2.

Associations Between Disordered Gambling and Alcohol Use Disorder

Alcohol use disorder phenotype Full sample (N = 4,764) Men (N = 2,037) Women (N = 2,727) Tests of sex differencesa
χ2 p-value
Categorical DSM-IV DG (5+ symptoms) and AUD tetrachoric correlations (odds ratios)
DSM-IV AD 0.50 (8.17) 0.48 (6.68) 0.46 (8.35) 0.27 .60
DSM-5 AUD 0.38 (4.68) 0.40 (4.74) 0.27 (3.19) 0.82 .37
Categorical DSM-5 DG (4+ symptoms) and AUD tetrachoric correlations (odds ratios)
DSM-IV AD 0.48 (7.04) 0.49 (6.36) 0.40 (6.00) 0.03 .89
DSM-5 AUD 0.35 (3.95) 0.38 (4.20) 0.23 (2.55) 1.63 .20
Categorical DG (1+ symptoms) and AUD tetrachoric correlations (odds ratios)
DSM-IV AD 0.42 (4.19) 0.44 (4.02) 0.32 (3.28) 0.79 .38
DSM-5 AUD 0.35 (2.95) 0.35 (2.78) 0.26 (2.16) 0.76 .38
Continuous DG and AUD Pearson’s correlations
DSM-IV AUD symptom count 0.34 0.37 0.26 t
2.91
p-value
.004

Note: DG = disordered gambling; AD = alcohol dependence; AUD = alcohol use disorder.

All correlations and odds ratios are statistically significant at p < .05.

a

Tests of sex differences in odds ratios.