. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Apr 1.

Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2017 Mar 20;41(4):857–862. doi: 10.1111/acer.13353

Table 1.

Participant Characteristics

	Control Group (n = 62)	Alcohol Dependent Group (n = 151)	Χ²/t Statistics
Demographics
Age, mean (SD)	59.02 (10.33)	59.26 (8.09)	0.18
Male)	38 (61.3%)	109 (72.2%)	2.44
Race^a
Caucasian)	60 (96.8%)	123 (82.6%)	7.80^*
African American)	1 (1.6%)	8 (5.3%)
Other)	1 (1.6%)	18 (12.1%)
Mental Health History^a
Beck Depression Inventory Rating, mean (SD)	6.77 (6.06)	8.99 (7.98)	1.96^*
>9 on Beck Depression Inventory)	19 (30.6%)	51 (35.7%)	0.49
Physical Health History
Alcohol Liver Disease or Cirrhosis	8 (12.9%)	138 (91.4%)
Hepatitis C	18 (29.0%)	4 (2.6%)
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis	10 (16.1%)	0 (0.0%)	130.42^***
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis	6 (9.7%)	0 (0.0%)
Other	20 (32.3%)	9 (6.0%)
Lifetime Treatment for Alcohol or Drug Abuse (n, % present)	6.5	38.3	21.55^***

Notes. Alcohol dependent participants: 2 missing data on race; 8 missing data on Beck Depression Inventory.

^***

p<0.001;

p<0.05