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. 2017 Jun 6;357:j2353. doi: 10.1136/bmj.j2353

Table 4.

Parameter estimates for paths in final structural equation model (fig 6), with their bias corrected 95% confidence intervals and P values, in 511 participants

Path Change in y for each unit increase in x (95% CI) P value
From (x) To (y)
Average alcohol* Hippocampal volume −0.572 (−0.800 to −0.353) 0.01
Average alcohol Corpus callosum mean diffusivity 0.038 (0.017 to 0.064) 0.009
Average alcohol* Lexical fluency decline −0.002 (−0.005 to 0.000) 0.08
Corpus callosum mean diffusivity Lexical fluency decline −0.011 (−0.022 to −0.003) 0.003
Age Hippocampal volume −0.020 (−0.021 to −0.013) 0.008
Age Corpus callosum mean diffusivity2 0.003 (0.002 to 0.003) 0.03

*As fraction of 100 units weekly.

†As multiplicative of 1000.