Some additional findings worthy of comment include noting that religious involvement, which was not related to outcomes here but had been reported in some other studies (e.g., Dawson et al., 2012), might be most important over relatively modest periods of time but have less salience to long-term outcomes in individuals in their 60’s and beyond. Also, the interview questions regarding the categories of living as married and married were asked a bit differently at baseline and follow-up, a differential that might have contributed to differences in subjects who reported themselves as never married across baseline and follow-up interviews. Regarding other demographic characteristics, however, our current findings are consistent with our two recent reports that indicated higher proportions of individuals with EA heritage in the abstinent group and lower proportions in the high-risk drinking and the alcohol problem outcomes (Gonçalves et al., 2017; McCutcheon et al., 2017).
