Table 2.

Cognitive Performance Data by Alcohol Use Categories.

	Never/ Minimal n = 25	Former n = 23	Current n = 85	Adjusted Coefficient^a for comparator group (standard error), Significance and Standardized Beta
	Unadjusted Mean (S.D.)
3MS total score	91.8 (6.63)	95.8 (3.50)	95.4 (3.92)	Never/Minimal: −1.60 (1.11), p = 0.14, β = −0.13 Former: 1.17 (1.02), p = 0.26, β = 0.09
Composite z score at baseline	0.02 (0.24) n = 23	−0.02 (0.27) n = 22	0.003 (0.31) n = 77	Never/Minimal: 0.07 (0.07), p = 0.30, β = 0.11 Former: 0.06 (0.07), p = 0.41, β = 0.08
Verbal (letter) fluency z-score	−0.13 (1.08)	−0.40 (0.87)	0.18 (0.99)	Never/Minimal: 0.15 (0.24), p = 0.52, β = 0.06 Former: −0.27 (0.23), p = 0.24, β = −0.10
Category fluency z-score	−0.20 (1.24)	−0.10 (0.91)	0.07 (0.95)	Never/Minimal: 0.08 (0.23), p = 0.72, β = 0.03 Former: −0.005 (0.23), p = 0.98, β = −0.002
RAVLT delayed recall z-score	−0.13 (0.95)	0.16 (0.83)	0.06 (1.03) n = 83	Never/Minimal: −0.004 (0.22), p = 0.99, β = −0.02 Former: 0.24 (0.22), p = 0.27, β = 0.10
RAVLT total words learned z-score	−0.48 (1.07)	0.23 (0.87)	0.12 (0.98) n = 83	Never/Minimal: −0.27 (0.21), p = 0.21, β = −0.11 Former: 0.27 (0.20), p = 0.18, β = 0.10
Digit Symbol Substitution z-score	0.03 (1.08)	0.01 (1.08)	0.02 (0.97) n = 83	Never/Minimal: 0.23 (0.24), p = 0.34, β = 0.09 Former: 0.15 (0.23), p = 0.52, β = 0.06
Trails A z-score	0.11 (1.03)	0.06 (0.90) n = 22	−0.06 (1.02) n = 82	Never/Minimal: −0.06 (0.24), p = 0.82, β = −0.02 Former: 0.002 (0.24), p = 0.99, β = 0.001
Trails B z-score	0.32 (1.23)	0.13 (1.16)	−0.12 (0.88) n = 83	Never/Minimal: 0.11 (0.24), p = 0.65, β = 0.04 Former: 0.12 (0.23), p = 0.60, β = 0.05
Eriksen Flanker – congruent z-score	0.05 (0.93)	−0.28 (1.31)	0.02 (0.84) n = 83	Never/Minimal: 0.08 (0.24), p = 0.74, β = 0.03 Former: −0.20 (0.23), p = 0.38, β = −0.08
Eriksen Flanker – incongruent z-score	−0.06 (0.97)	−0.17 (0.94)	0.003 (0.90) n = 83	Never/Minimal: 0.002 (0.24), p = 0.99, β = 0.001 Former: −0.06 (0.23), p = 0.79, β = −0.03
Useful Field of View – processing z-score	0.19 (1.27) n = 24	−0.02 (1.21)	−0.04 (0.86) n = 81	Never/Minimal: −0.005 (0.26), p = 0.98, β = −0.002 Former: −0.07 (0.25), p = 0.79, β = −0.02
Useful Field of View – divided attention z-score	0.47 (1.21) n = 24	0.10 (1.21)	−0.16 (0.84) n = 81	Never/Minimal: 0.42 (0.24), p = 0.08, β = 0.16 Former: 0.16 (0.23), p = 0.48, β = 0.06
Useful Field of View – selective attention z-score	0.11 (0.88) n = 23	0.27 (1.24)	−0.10 (0.96) n = 78	Never/Minimal: 0.01 (0.24), p = 0.96, β = 0.005 Former: 0.31 (0.23), p = 0.19, β = 0.12

: Controlled for age, education, sex, race and smoking pack years with “current drinkers” serving as the standardization reference.