2021 Publications resulting from NIAAA grant on Lithuania (in alphabetical order)

Jiang, H., Lange, S., Tran, A., Imtiaz, S., & Rehm, J. (2021). Determining the sex-specific distributions of average daily alcohol consumption using cluster analysis: is there a separate distribution for people with alcohol dependence? Population Health Metrics, 19(1), 28. doi: 10.1186/s12963-021-00261-4
Lange, S., Jiang, H., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., Cherpitel, C., Giesbrecht, N., Goštautaitė Midttun N., Jasilionis, D., Kaplan, M.S., Manthey, J., Xuan, Z., & Rehm, J. (2021). Evaluating the impact of alcohol policy on suicide mortality: a sex-specific time-series analysis for Lithuania. Archives of Suicide Research. Online ahead of print.
Manthey, J., Jasilionis, D., Jiang, H., Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M. (2021). Interrupted time series analyses to assess the impact of alcohol control policy on socioeconomic inequalities in mortality in Lithuania: a study protocol. BMJ Open, 11(12), e053497. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2021-053497
Manthey, J., Solovei, A., Anderson, P., Carr, S., & Rehm, J. (2021). Can alcohol consumption in Germany be reduced by alcohol screening, brief intervention and referral to treatment in primary health care? Results of a simulation study. PLoS One, 16(8), e0255843. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0255843
Neufeld, M., Bobrova, A., Davletov, K., Štelemėkas, M., Stoppel, R., Ferreira-Borges, C., Breda, J., & Rehm, J. (2021). Alcohol control policies in Former Soviet Union countries – a narrative review of three decades of policy changes and their apparent effects. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(3), 350–367. doi: 10.1111/dar.13204
Radišauskas, R., Kim, K.V., Lange, S., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O., Petkevičienė, J., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2021). Cardiovascular diseases mortality and alcohol control policy in Lithuania: exploring a possible link. BMC Public Health, 21(1, 2116. doi: 10.1186/s12889-021-12177-7
Rehm, J. & Purshouse, R.C. (2021). Causality and initiation of alcohol control policy. A response to Allamani. Drug and Alcohol Review, 40(7), 1389-91. doi: 10.1111/dar.13371
Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M., Ferreira-Borges, C., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Casswell, S., Tran, A., & Manthey, J. (2021). Classifying alcohol control policies with respect to expected changes in consumption and alcohol-attributable harm: the example of Lithuania. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 18, 2419. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18052419
Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M., Kim, K.V., Zafar, A. & Lange, S. (2021). Alcohol and health in Central and Eastern EU countries– status quo and alcohol policy options. Journal of Health Inequalities, 7(2), 91–95. doi: 10.5114/jhi.2021.113167
Štelemėkas, M., Manthey, J., Badaras, R., Casswell, S., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kalėdienė, R., Lange, S., Neufeld, M., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Room, R., Telksnys, T., Zurlytė, I., & Rehm, J. (2021). Alcohol control policy measures and all-cause mortality in Lithuania: an interrupted time-series analysis. Addiction, 116(10), 2673-2684. doi: 10.1111/add.15470
Tran, A., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Livingston, M., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., & Rehm, J. (2021). The impact of increasing the minimum legal drinking age from 18 to 20 years in Lithuania on all-cause mortality in young adults – an interrupted time-series analysis. Alcohol and Alcoholism, doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agab076
Tran, A., Manthey, J., Lange, S., Jiang, H., Štelemėkas, M., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Meščeriakova-Veliulienė, O., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Telksnys, T., & Rehm, J. (2021). Alcohol control policies add to secular trends in all-cause mortality rates in young adults. Scientific Reports, 11(1), 15127. doi: 10.1038/s41598-021-94562-1