As shown in Table 3, compared to women of the same race/ethnicity, men had significantly higher hazards for drinking initiation (all p-values ≤ 0.001). Black men had a higher hazard than Black women for onset of dependence (p = 0.030). There were no other statistically significant sex differences in the hazards for onset of dependence or time to progression from drinking initiation to development of alcohol dependence for Whites, Blacks or Hispanics.
