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Table 2 Alcohol consumption and visual memory for male and female participants in the cross-sectional, longitudinal 1, and longitudinal 2 datasets

From: Visual memory and alcohol use in a middle-aged birth cohort

Parameters

Cross-sectional

Longitudinal 1

Longitudinal 2

Male

Female

Male

Female

Male

Female

N

1877

2260

2053

2738

1747

2187

Total alcohol consumption (g/d) (mean (SD))

17.96 (24.97)

7.32 (11.75)

13.11 (17.77)

5.07 (9.17)

3.78 (21.16)

2.15 (11.31)

PAL TEA (mean (SD))

14.17 (14.01)

11.63 (9.97)

14.34 (14.29)

11.88 (10.67)

14.14 (14.09)

11.75 (10.28)

PAL FTMS (mean (SD))

19.09 (3.25)

19.56 (3.22)

19.05 (3.25)

19.53 (3.27)

19.10 (3.26)

19.54 (3.23)

  1. Cross-sectional = Alcohol use data at the age of 46 and PAL test data at the age of 46
  2. Longitudinal 1 = Alcohol use data at the age of 31 and PAL test data at the age of 46
  3. Longitudinal 2 = Change in alcohol use data from the age of 31 to 46 and PAL test data at the age of 46
  4. PAL Paired Association Learning, TEA Total Error Adjusted, FTMS First Trial Memory Score, SD Standard Deviation, g/d Grams per decilitre