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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2018 Apr 16;42(6):1073–1083. doi: 10.1111/acer.13633

Table 4.

Alcohol Use and Alcohol Problems among Current Drinkers with Past-Year DSM-5 Alcohol Withdrawal who Do and Do Not Continue to Meet Withdrawal Criterion when the Nausea Sub-criterion is Removed from the Algorithm. Medians (and interquartile ranges) are presented for continuous variables; percentages (and confidence intervals) are presented for nominal variables.

Alcohol Use and Problem Variables Alcohol Withdrawal With Nausea Removed (n=1,411) No Alcohol Withdrawal When Nausea Removed (n=435) Wald F (df=1,65)
Alcohol Symptom Count past year 2.13 (0.56–4.49) 1.41 (0.37–2.91) 39.62*
Maximum drinks/Occasion lifetime 9.72 (5.46–14.86) 9.14 (5.14–14.25) 12.28*
Maximum drinks/Occasion past year 7.99 (4.80–14.11) 7.32 (4.46–11.48) 8.67*
Average Drinks/Occasion past year 3.82 (2.10–5.87) 3.11 (1.88–5.25) 19.29*
Number of Binge Drinking Days past year 28.95 (1.51–122.57) 10.60 (0.70–50.45) 41.74*
% Detoxification Treatment past year 3.36 (2.30–4.89) 0.41 (0.10–1.75) 7.85*
% Reporting Alcohol Withdrawal-related Distress-Impairment 30.54 (27.59–33.65) 21.77 (17.12–27.27) 8.40*

Note:

*

p < .007