Table 1.
Demographic and clinical characteristics of the total sample and stratified by alcohol use trajectory group.1
| Total (n=495,178) |
Infrequent (n=172,870) |
Lower risk (n=161,110) |
Potentially hazardous/ harmful (n=127,772) |
Consistently hazardous/ harmful (n=33,426) |
|
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Female2 | 8.6 (42,562) | 10.2 (17,635) | 11.4 (18,303) | 4.7 (5,952) | 2.0 (672) |
| Age - mean (SD) | 61.7 (13.8) | 62.8 (13.3) | 60.0 (14.2) | 62.1 (13.8) | 62.6 (13.9) |
| Race3 | |||||
| AA | 19.6 (96,947) | 20.6 (35,563) | 20.0 (32,168) | 17.1 (21,892) | 14.3 (4,763) |
| EA | 74.1 (366,937) | 70.3 (121,522) | 70.6 (113,807) | 75.4 (96,324) | 78.2 (26,141) |
| Other/Mixed race4 | 6.3 (31,293) | 9.1 (15,785) | 9.4 (15,135) | 7.5 (9,556) | 7.6 (2,522) |
| Ethnicity | |||||
| Hispanic/Latino | 6.6 (32,644) | 6.1 (10,618) | 7.4 (11,898) | 6.2 (7888) | 6.7 (2240) |
| Not Hispanic/Latino | 92.0 (455,690) | 92.4 (159,798) | 91.3 (147,012) | 92.5 (118,147) | 91.9 (30,733) |
| Unknown | 1.4 (6,844) | 1.4 (2,454) | 1.4 (2200) | 1.4 (1737) | 1.4 (453) |
| Hepatitis C infection | 6.4 (31,878) | 7.4 (12,759) | 5.8 (9,308) | 5.6 (7,125) | 8.0 (2,686) |
| PTSD | 25.1 (124,142) | 26.0 (44,952) | 25.4 (40,942) | 22.8 (29,110) | 27.3 (9,138) |
| Bipolar disorder | 12.7 (62,772) | 14.0 (24,277) | 12.9 (20,773) | 10.3 (13,163) | 13.6 (4,559) |
| Liver cirrhosis | 3.0 (15,021) | 3.8 (6,617) | 2.4 (3,894) | 2.3 (2,979) | 4.6 (1,531) |
| AUD | 19.9 (98,574) | 12.5 (21,636) | 14.4 (23,240) | 26.4 (33,746) | 59.7 (19,952) |
| Delirium | 4.3 (21,074) | 4.9 (8,546) | 3.8 (6,120) | 3.3 (4,225) | 6.5 (2,183) |
SD=standard deviation; AA=African American; EA=European American; PTSD=posttraumatic stress disorder; AUD=alcohol use disorder.
1
All values are % (n) unless otherwise indicated.
2
Sex is missing for 6 individuals
3
Race is missing for 1 individual
4
Other race includes: American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, Native Hawaiian, Other Pacific Islander, Other, and Unknown.