2022 Publications resulting from NIAAA grant on Lithuania (in alphabetical order)

Galkus, L., Lange, S., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Miščikienė, L., Petkevičienė, J., Rehm, J., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., Vaitkevičiūtė, J., (submitted). The comprehensive alcohol advertising ban in Lithuania: a case study of social media. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Jiang, H., Feng, X., Lange, S., Tran, A., Manthey, J., & Rehm, J. (accepted). Estimating effects of health policy interventions using interrupted time-series analyses: a simulation study. BMC Medical Research Methodology

Jiang, H., Tran, A., Petkevičienė , J., Štelemėkas, M., Lange, S., & Rehm, J., (Revised and resubmitted). Are restrictions in sales hours of alcohol associated with fewer emergency room visits in Lithuania?  An interrupted time-series analysis Drug and Alcohol Review

Kim, K.V., Rehm, J., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Manthey, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., Zafar, A., & Lange, S., (Revised and resubmitted). Impact of alcohol control policy on hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke mortality rates in Lithuania: an interrupted time-series analysis Adicciones

Lange, S., Rehm, J., Tran, A., Bagge, C., Jasilionis, D., Kaplan, M. S., Meščeriakova‑Veliulienė, O., Štelemėkas, M., Probst, C. (2022). Comparing gender‑specific suicide mortality rate trends in the United States and Lithuania,1990–2019: putting one of the “deaths of despair” into perspective. BMC Psychiatry, 22, 127. 

Lange, S., Jiang, H., Bagge, C., Probst, C., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). 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, 1-6.

Neufeld, M., Rovira, P., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kilian, C., Sassi, F., Veryga, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). Impact of introducing a minimum alcohol tax share in retail prices on alcohol-attributable mortality in the WHO European Region: a modeling study. Lancet Regional Health - Europe, 15, 100325. doi: 10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100325

Rehm, J., Lange, S., Gobiņa, I., Janik-Koncewicz, K., Miščikienė, L., Reile, R., Stoppel, R., Tran, A., Ferreira-Borges, C., Jasilionis, D., Jiang, H., Kim, V., K., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Room, R., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Zatoński, W., A., & Štelemėkas, M., (under review). Classifying alcohol control policies between 2000 and 2020 in Poland and the Baltic countries to model potential impact Addiction

Rehm, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Sornpaisarn, B., Štelemėkas, M., Swahn, M.H., & Lachenmeier, D.W. (2022). The impact of alcohol taxation changes on unrecorded alcohol consumption: a review and recommendations. International Journal of Drug Policy, 99,103420. doi: 10.1016/j.drugpo.2021.103420 

Rovira, P., Belian, G., Ferreira-Borges, C., Kilian, C., Neufeld, M., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). Alcohol taxation, alcohol consumption and cancers in Lithuania. A case study. Nordic Studies on Alcohol and Drugs, 39(1) 25–37. doi: 10.1177/14550725211021318 

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Lange, S., Rovira, P., & Rehm, J. (2022). Predicting the impact of alcohol taxation increases on mortality – a comparison of different estimation techniques. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 57(4), 500–507. doi: 10.1093/alcalc/agac003 

Tran, A., Stoppel, R., Jiang, H., Kim, V., K., Lange, S., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Zafar, A., & Rehm, J., (under review). The temporal trend of cause-specific mortality: Comparing Estonia and Lithuania, 2001 – 2019 BMC Public Health

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Manthey, J., Štelemėkas, M., Badaras, R., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Room, R., & Rehm, J., (2022). Can alcohol control policies reduce liver cirrhosis mortality? An interrupted time-series analysis in Lithuania. Liver International, 42(4),765–774. doi: 10.1111/liv.15151