Table 3.

Odds ratios of the association of the presence of any wave 1 anxiety disorder¹ (full criteria and sub-clinical), specific phobia, (full criteria and sub-clinical), and nervousness² with new onset of DSM-IV alcohol abuse or dependence based on initial and multiple logistic regression analyses (n=587).

	New Onset Alcohol Disorder
	Unadjusted Model 1			Model 2³			Model 3⁴

	OR	95% CI⁵	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value	OR	95% CI	p-value

Any DSM-III Anxiety Disorder
Full Criteria	0.93	0.12 – 7.52	0.95	1.04	0.12 – 8.83	0.97	0.70	0.07 – 6.76	0.76
Sub-Clinical	2.29	0.94 – 5.63	0.07	2.58	1.01 – 6.63	0.05	2.52	0.98 – 6.47	0.05
DSM-III Specific Phobia
Full Criteria	3.06	0.37 – 25.43	0.30	4.27	0.48 – 38.16	0.19	2.93	0.28 – 30.94	0.37
Sub-Clinical	2.57	1.03 – 6.44	0.04	3.14	1.18 – 8.38	0.02	3.16	1.18 – 8.44	0.02
Nervousness	1.60	0.61 – 4.23	0.34	2.05	0.73 – 5.73	0.17	1.84	0.64 – 5.28	0.26

Any anxiety disorder includes DSM-III panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia, agoraphobia, and specific phobia.

Nervousness is a dichotomous variable “Are you a nervous person?”

This model controls for age, gender, race, educational level, and marital status.

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This model adds controls for lifetime history of affective disorders, schizophrenic disorders, illicit drug abuse and dependence, a history of household drinking, and the other DSM-III anxiety disorders including: panic disorder, obsessive compulsive disorder, social phobia, agoraphobia, and specific phobia.

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CI, confidence interval.