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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 18.
Published in final edited form as: Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2020 Sep 19;44(10):2053–2063. doi: 10.1111/acer.14435

Table 2.

Logistic regression analysis and area under the curve of the ROC curves predicting PEth > 20ng/mL based on self-reported aclohol use by TLFB

Self-reported alcohol use** Odds ratio (95% CI)* P-value Area under the curve (95% CI)
Mean number of drinks per day, past 21 days
 • Overall sample 1.73 (1.41, 2.11) <0.0001 0.80 (0.74, 0.85)
 • Individual trial samples
   ⚪ MALD 4.31 (1.61, 11.54) 0.004 0.78 (0.69, 0.88)
   ⚪ At-risk drinking 1.57 (1.04, 2.36) 0.035 0.68 (0.55, 0.80)
   ⚪ Alcohol use disorder 1.26 (1.01, 1.57) 0.04 0.68 (0.54, 0.82)

Sensitivity analyses (among overall sample only)
Mean number of drinks per day, past 14 days 1.66 (1.37, 2.00) <0.0001 0.79 (0.73, 0.85)
Mean number of drinks per day, past 7 days 1.60 (1.34, 1.91) <0.0001 0.78 (0.72, 0.84)
Mean number of heavy drinking days, past 21 days 1.24 (1.13, 1.36) <0.0001 0.74 (0.68, 0.80)

CI, Confidence interval; ROC, Receiver operating characteristics curve; TLFB, Alcohol Timeline Followback;

*

this is the OR of PEth > 20ng/mL. The OR are calculated based on 1 unit increase in each of the TLFB measures