Research Article

An Epidemiological Investigation of Male-Female Differences in Drinking and Drinking-Related Problems between US-Born and Foreign-Born Latino and Asian Americans

Table 3

Estimates for male-female ratios from the zero-inflated poisson regression among drinkers. Data from NLAAS, 2002-2003.

Foreign-born LAAUS-born LAA

Model 11Model 21Model 11Model 21
OR to be in the nonzero group
(95 % CI)
9.4 (4.2, 21.0) 9.5 (4.3, 21.0) 2.4 (1.7, 3.4)2.6 (1.9, 3.6)
𝑃 value<0.001<0.001<0.001<0.001
Coefficient for the increment in the count of clinical features (95 % CI)0.17 (−0.13, 0.46)0.21 (−0.12, 0.53)0.35 (0.02, 0.68)0.39 (0.03, 0.70)
𝑃 value0.260.220.040.03

1 Model 1 adjusted for age and ethnicity; model 2 additionally adjusted for number of parents born in the USA.