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

Jiang, H., Tran, A., Gmel, G., Lange, S., Manthey, J., Room, R., Rovira, P., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., & Rehm. J. (2021). How to quantify deaths averted derived from interrupted time-series analyses. MedRxiv 2021.03.23.21254181

Lange, S., Jiang, H., Bagge, C., Probst, C., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (accepted). Gender-specific risk relationship between heavy alcohol use/alcohol use disorders and suicidal thoughts and behavior among adults in the United States over time. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.

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, [Epub ahead of print Nov 13] doi: 10.1080/13811118.2021.1999873.

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., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Sornpaisarn, B., Štelemėkas, M., Swahn, M.H., & Lachenmeier, D.W. (2021). The impact of alcohol taxation changes on unrecorded alcohol consumption: a review and recommendations. International Journal of Drug Policy doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103420

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

Rovira, P., Belian, G., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kilian, C., Neufeld, M., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2021). Alcohol taxation, alcohol consumption and cancers in Lithuania. A case study. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs [Epub ahead of print Jun 28] doi: 10.1177/14550725211021318

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