Table 1.
Characteristics of patients with and without alcohol misuse based on full AUDIT scores.
| No Alcohol Misuse (n=801) |
Alcohol Misuse (n=236) |
P-Value | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Age (mean, SD) | 53 (±17) | 48 (±13) | <0.001 |
| Race/Ethnicity (n, %) | 0.55 | ||
| White, Non-Hispanic | 548 (69) | 158 (67) | |
| African American | 133 (17) | 39 (17) | |
| White, Hispanic | 63 (8) | 16 (7) | |
| Other | 50 (6) | 21 (9) | |
| Gender (male) | 360 (45) | 166 (70) | <0.001 |
| Acute Physiology and Chronic Health Evaluation (APACHE) III (mean, SD) | 92 (±27) | 90 (±27) | 0.42 |
| Smoking Status (n, %) | <0.001 | ||
| Never Smoker | 397 (50) | 44 (19) | |
| Current Smoker | 211 (26) | 153 (65) | |
| Former Smoker | 190 (24) | 37 (16) | |
| Location (n, %) | 0.21 | ||
| Medical | 524 (65) | 147 (62) | |
| Surgical | 102 (13) | 41 (17) | |
| Medical/Surgical | 175 (22) | 48 (20) | |
| ARDS Risk Factor * | |||
| Trauma | 43 (5) | 25 (11) | <0.01 |
| Sepsis | 465 (58) | 133 (56) | 0.64 |
| Pneumonia | 569 (71) | 159 (67) | 0.28 |
| Aspiration | 129 (16) | 77 (33) | <0.001 |
| Comorbidity | |||
| Cirrhosis | 28 (4) | 23 (10) | <0.001 |
| Diabetes | 245 (31) | 40 (17) | <0.001 |
| CHF | 58 (7) | 7 (3) | 0.01 |
*
Patients may have more than 1 acute respiratory distress syndrome risk factor.