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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. (2022). The Comprehensive Alcohol Advertising Ban in Lithuania: A Case Study of Social Media. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health19(19), 12398.

Jiang, H., Feng, X., Lange, S., Tran, A., Manthey, J., & Rehm, J. (2022). Estimating effects of health policy interventions using interrupted time-series analyses: a simulation study. BMC Medical Research Methodology, 22, 235

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.

Llamosas-Falcón, L., Probst, C., Buckley, C., Jiang, H., Lasserre, A. M., Puka, K., Tran, A., & Rehm, J. (2022). Sex-specific association between alcohol consumption and liver cirrhosis: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis. Frontiers in Gastroenterology1.

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.

Petkeviciene J, Kriaucioniene V, Raskiliene A. Academic Achievements, Satisfaction with Studies and Risky Behaviours among First-Year Students of Kaunas (Lithuania) Universities, 2000-2017. Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2022 Jun 22;19(13):7616. doi: 10.3390/ijerph19137616.

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 

Rehm J., Tran, A, Gobina, I.,Janik-Koncewicz, K., Jiang, H., Kim, K. V., Liutkutė-Gumarov, V., Miščikienė L., Reile, R., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Stoppel, R., Zatoński, W., Lange, S., (2022). Do alcohol control policies have the predicted effects on consumption? An analysis of the Baltic countries and Poland 2000-2020. Drug and Alcohol Dependence, 241, 109682

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., Jiang, H., Lange, S., Livingston, M., Manthey, J., Neufeld, M., Room, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., & Rehm, J. (2022). 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 57 (4), 513-519.

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

Tran, A., Stoppel, R., Jiang, H., Kim, V., K., Lange, S., Petkevičienė, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Telksnys, T., Zafar, A., & Rehm, J., (2022). The temporal trend of cause-specific mortality: Comparing Estonia and Lithuania, 2001 – 2019. BMC Public Health, 22, 1984.

Vaičiūnas, T.; Žemaitaitytė, M.; Lange, S.; Štelemėkas, M.; Oja, L.; Petkevičienė, J.; Kowalewska, A.; Pudule, I.; Piksööt, J.; Šmigelskas, K. Trends in Adolescent Substance Use: Analysis of HBSC Data for Four Eastern European Countries, 1994–2018. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health  2022, 19, 15457

Zafar, A., Rehm, J., Feng, X., Jiang, H., Kim, K. V., Manthey, J., Radišauskas, R., Štelemėkas, M., Petkevičienė, J., Tran, A., & Lange, S. (2022). The impact of alcohol control policy on pneumonia mortality in Lithuania: an interrupted time-series analysis. Epidemiology & Infection150.

 

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