Table 1.
Participants’ characteristics according to categories of total alcohol intake.
| Characteristics | Total | Total alcohol intake
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| None | Light-to-Moderate | p | ||
| Number of participants | 589 | 409 | 180 | |
| Age at scan, mean(SD), years | 80.1 (5.5) | 80.4 (5.6) | 79.5 (5.4) | 0.07 |
| Female, N(%) | 395 (67) | 291 (71) | 104 (58) | 0.001 |
| Education, mean(SD), years | 10.8 (4.7) | 10.0 (4.8) | 12.5 (4.1) | <0.0001 |
| White, N(%) | 157 (28) | 91 (23) | 66 (40) | <0.0001 |
| Black, N(%) | 193 (35) | 134 (34) | 59 (35) | |
| Hispanic, N(%) | 191 (34) | 154 (40) | 37 (22) | |
| Other race, N(%) | 15 (3) | 10 (3) | 5 (3) | |
| APOE (ε4+), N(%) | 145 (29) | 94 (24) | 51 (30) | 0.17 |
| Ever-smoke, N(%) | 315 (54) | 202 (49) | 113 (63) | 0.003 |
| Caloric intake, mean(SD), kcal | 1394 (536) | 1358 (518) | 1476 (547) | 0.01 |
| Diabetes, N(%) | 128 (22) | 100 (24) | 28 (16) | 0.02 |
| Heart Disease, N(%) | 128 (22) | 89 (22) | 39 (22) | 0.98 |
| Hypertension, N(%) | 394 (67) | 283 (69) | 111 (62) | 0.07 |
| Stroke, N(%) | 68 (11) | 48 (12) | 20 (11) | 0.83 |
| BMI, mean(SD), kg/m2 | 27.6 (5.5) | 28.1 (5.7) | 26.6 (5.0) | 0.004 |
| rWMHV, mean(SD) | 0.012 (0.01) | 0.012 (0.01) | 0.013 (0.01) | 0.55 |
| rTBV, mean(SD) | 0.728 (0.04) | 0.727 (0.04) | 0.730 (0.04) | 0.51 |
| Presence of infarcts, N(%) | 184 (32) | 122 (30) | 62 (35) | 0.24 |
*
P values were from t test for continuous variables and χ2 test for categorical/binary variables.