Table 5.

Relationship Between Episodic Memory and Late Life Alcohol Consumption Adjusting for Regional Brain Volumes.^a

Characteristic	$\hat{\mathit{\beta }}$	SE	F Value/t Value	P Value
Alcohol consumption			1.00	.39
Abstainer	–	–	–	–
Light	0.17	0.11	1.61	.11
Moderate	0.03	0.10	0.34	.74
Heavy	0.16	0.18	0.90	.37
Hippocampal volume	0.15	0.08	1.94	.05
Frontal lobe volume	−3.6e−4	1.4e−3	−0.26	.80
Temporal lobe volume	−5.8e−5	4.8e−3	−0.01	.99
Parietal lobe volume	2.1e−4	1.2e−3	0.18	.86
Total brain volume	3.7e−5	1.2−3	0.03	.97
Age	−0.02	7.9e−3	−2.85	<.01
Gender
Men	–	–	–	–
Women	0.16	0.10	1.51	.13
Educational attainment			2.42	.07
<High school	–	–	–	–
High school degree	0.32	0.24	1.36	.17
Some college	0.32	0.25	1.28	.20
College degree	0.53	0.25	2.09	.04
WRAT-3	0.05	0.01	4.81	<.01
Smoking (late life)			0.95	.33
No	–	–	–	–
Yes	−0.19	0.20	−0.98	.33
APOE e4 status			1.73	.19
e4−	–	–	–	–
e4+	−0.12	0.09	−1.32	.19

Abbreviations: APOE, apolipoprotein E; SE, standard error; WRAT, Wide Range Achievement Test.

^aBold values indicate statistical significance P < .05.