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Table 3 Association of alcohol use in grams of alcohol per day with 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

PAL TEA

PAL FTMS

Crude

Adjusted

Crude

Adjusted

Beta (95% CI)

p

Beta (95% CI)

p

Beta (95% CI)

p

Beta (95% CI)

p

Males

 Cross-sectional

-0.008 (-0.052–0.037)

0.733

-0.016 (-0.06–0.028)

0.472

0.009 (-0.031–0.048)

0.663

0.016 (-0.023–0.055)

0.422

 Longitudinal 1

-0.019 (0.055–0.025)

0.398

-0.033 (-0.077–0.011)

0.137

0.003 (-0.036–0.041)

0.898

0.018 (-0.021–0.056)

0.366

 Longitudinal 2

-0.022 (-0.072–0.027)

0.373

-0.016 (-0.065–0.032)

0.51

0.032 (-0.011–0.076)

0.147

0.026 (-0.017–0.069)

0.238

Females

 Cross-sectional

-0.009 (-0.07–0.053)

0.776

-0.006 (-0.067–0.055)

0.847

0.043 (-0.033–0.119)

0.27

0.042 (-0.033–0.117)

0.271

 Longitudinal 1

-0.033 (-0.088–0.022)

0.244

-0.018 (-0.073–0.037)

0.528

0.037 (-0.028–0.102)

0.26

0.024 (-0.041–0.089)

0.468

 Longitudinal 2

0.036 (-0.024–0.096)

0.238

0.032 (-0.027–0.092)

0.29

0.001 (-0.071–0.073)

0.984

0.003 (-0.068–0.075)

0.924

  1. Linear regression analysis. All continuous variables used in these models were normalised using z-scores. Adjusted models included education, marital status, diet, physical activity, smoking and cardiometabolic diseases
  2. Cross-sectional = Alcohol use data at the age of 46 and PAL test data at the age of 46
  3. Longitudinal 1 = Alcohol use data at the age of 31 and PAL test data at the age of 46
  4. Longitudinal 2 = Change in alcohol use data from the age of 31 to 46 and PAL test data at the age of 46
  5. PAL Paired Association Learning, TEA Total Error Adjusted, FTMS First Trial Memory Score, CI Confidence Interval