2023 Publications resulting from NIAAA grant on Lithuania (in alphabetical order)

Gobiņa, I., Isajeva, L., Spriņģe, L., Vrobļevska, E., Pelne, A., Mārtiņsone, U., & Lange, S. (2023). A narrative review of alcohol control policies in Latvia between 1990 and 2020. Drug and alcohol review. 42(4), 946-959.

Jiang, H., Tran, A., Petkevičienė, J., Štelemėkas, M., Lange, S., & Rehm, J. (2023). Are restrictions in sales hours of alcohol associated with fewer emergency room visits in Lithuania? An interrupted time-series analysis. Drug and alcohol review, 42(2), 487–494.

Kilian, C., Rehm, J., Shield, K., & Manthey, J. (2023). Changes in alcohol-specific mortality during the COVID-19 pandemic in 14 European countries. Sucht, 69(6), pp.285-293.

Kim, K. V., Rehm, J., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Manthey, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., Zafar, A., & Lange, S. (2023 epub). Impact of alcohol control policy on hemorrhagic and ischemic stroke mortality rates in Lithuania: An interrupted time series analysis. Impacto de políticas de control de alcohol en las tasas de mortalidad por ictus hemorrágico e isquémico en Lituania: Análisis de series temporales interrumpidas. Adicciones,

Lange, S., Jiang, H., Kaplan, M. S., Kim, K. V., & Rehm, J. (2023). Association between acute alcohol use and firearm-involved suicide in the United States. JAMA network open, 6(3), e235248.

Lange, S., Jiang, H., Štelemėkas, M., Tran, A., Cherpitel, C., Giesbrecht, N., Gostautaite Midttun, N., Jasilionis, D., Kaplan, M. S., Manthey, J., Xuan, Z., & Rehm, J. (2023). Evaluating the Impact of Alcohol Policy on Suicide Mortality: A Sex-Specific Time-Series Analysis for Lithuania. Archives of suicide research 27:2, 339-352.

Llamosas-Falcón, L., Hasan, O. S., Shuper, P. A., & Rehm, J. (2023). A systematic review on the impact of alcohol use on sexually transmitted infections. International journal of alcohol and drug research, 11(1), 3-12.

Llamosas-Falcón, L., Probst, C., Buckley, C., Jiang, H., Lasserre, A. M., Puka, K., Tran, A., Zhu, Y., & Rehm, J. (2023 epub). How does alcohol use impact morbidity and mortality of liver cirrhosis? A systematic review and dose–response meta-analysis. Hepatology International, 1-9.

Manthey, J., Jasilionis, D., Jiang, H., Meščeriakova, O., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., & Rehm, J. (2023). The impact of alcohol taxation increase on all-cause mortality inequalities in Lithuania: an interrupted time series analysis. BMC medicine, 21(1), 22.

Miščikienė, L., Tran, A., Petkevičienė, J., Rehm, J., Vaitkevičiūtė, J., Galkus, L., Lange, S., & Štelemėkas, M. (2023). A mystery-shopping study to test enforcement of minimum legal purchasing age in Lithuania in 2022. European journal of public health, 33(2), 317–322.

Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Petkevičienė, J., Trišauskė, J., Telksnys, T., Miščikienė, L., Gobiņa, I., Reile, R., Stoppel, R., Janik-Koncewicz, K. (2023). Alcohol-attributable mortality and alcohol control policy in the Baltic Countries and Poland in 2001–2020: an interrupted time-series analysis. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy, 18(1), 65.

Rehm, J., Badaras, R., Ferreira-Borges, C., Galkus, L., Gostautaite Midttun, N., Gobiņa, I., Janik-Koncewicz, K., Jasilionis, D., Jiang, H., Kim, V.K., Lange, S., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Manthey, J.,Miščikienė, L., Neufeld, M., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Reile, R., Room, R., Stoppel, R., Tamutienė, I., Tran, A., Trišauskė, J., Zatoński, M., Zatoński, W.A., Zurlytė, I., & Štelemėkas, M. (2023). Impact of the WHO "best buys" for Alcohol Policy on Consumption and Health in the Baltic Countries and Poland 2000–2020. The Lancet Regional Health–Europe, 33, 100704.

Rehm, J., Jiang, H., Kim, K.V., Room, R., Rovira, P., Shield, K.D., Tran, A., Lange, S., Štelemėkas, M. (2023). Using Direct and Indirect Estimates for Alcohol-Attributable Mortality: A Modelling Study Using the Example of Lithuania. Eur Addict Res. 29(2), 119-126.

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, K. V., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Room, R., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Zatoński, W. A., & Štelemėkas, M. (2023). Classifying alcohol control policies enacted between 2000 and 2020 in Poland and the Baltic countries to model potential impact. Addiction, 118(3), 449–458.

Rehm, J., Rovira, P., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Shield, K. D., Tran, A., Štelemėkas, M. (under review) Trends of alcohol-attributable deaths in Lithuania 2001-2021: epidemiology and policy conclusions. BMC Public Health

Reile, R., & Rehm, J., (in press) Does higher alcohol consumption affect attitudes towards alcohol control measures in Estonia? Public Health in Practice. Published online ahead of print, November 22, 2023.

Štelemėkas, M., Goštautaitė Midttun, N., Lange, S., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Manthey, J., Miščikienė, L., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Rehm, J. & Trišauskė, J. (2023). Unrecorded alcohol consumption in Lithuania: a modelling study for 2000–2021. Alcohol and Alcoholism, 58, 612-618.

Stoppel, R., Reile, R., Ahven, A., Pӓrna, K. (in press) Estonian Alcohol Control Legislation in 1990-2020: A narrative review. Drug and Alcohol Review. Published online ahead of print, November 27, 2023.

Stumbrys, D., Štelemėkas, M., Jasilionis, D., & Rehm, J. (in press). Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 2018. Scandinavian journal of public health, Published online ahead of print, July 4, 2023,

Tran, A., Jiang, H., Kim, K. V., Lange, S., Llamosas-Falcón, L., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Rehm, J., (under review) A time series analysis of alcohol control policies on liver cirrhosis hospitalizations and mortality rates across age groups in Lithuania. Addiction

Vaitkevičiūtė, J., Gobiņa, I., Janik-Koncewicz, K., Lange, S., Miščikienė, L., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Reile, R., Štelemėkas, M., Stoppel, R., Telksnys, T., Tran, A., Rehm, J., & Jiang, H. (2023). Alcohol control policies reduce all-cause mortality in Baltic Countries and Poland between 2001 and 2020. Scientific Reports, 13(1), 6326.