Adverse environmental exposures during gestation and childhood: Predictors of adolescent drinking

Lower parental strictness significantly predicted earlier age of alcohol initiation in adolescents in a multivariate Cox proportional hazards model controlling for race, maternal age, maltreatment, an

Effect: decline; HR 0.92

For each additional exposure to violence during childhood, the hazard rate of initiation of alcohol use was increased by 1.08, independently predicting earlier age of alcohol onset in a multivariate m

Effect: decline; HR 1.08

Greater lifetime exposure to childhood maltreatment significantly predicted earlier age of alcohol initiation in a multivariate Cox proportional hazards model, independent of race, maternal age, paren

Effect: decline; Significant in multivariate model

Prenatal alcohol exposure was significantly associated with earlier age of alcohol onset in bivariate analysis but was no longer significant in the multivariate Cox proportional hazards model after co

Effect: null; HR 1.17

Each drink per day increase in maternal drinking during pregnancy increased the odds of being in a higher level of adolescent drinking group by 1.7 times, in a multivariate polytomous logistic regress

Effect: decline; OR 1.70

For each unit of difference in parental strictness, the odds of being in a higher level of adolescent drinking were decreased by 0.86 times, in a multivariate polytomous logistic regression model.

Effect: decline; OR 0.86

Childhood exposures to maltreatment and violence independently predicted higher levels of adolescent drinking in a multivariate polytomous logistic regression model, after controlling for race, matern

Effect: decline; Significant in multivariate model