ArticleScandinavian journal of public health2024
Weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on hours of alcohol sale in Lithuania in 2018.
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- A review of the relationship between dimensions of alcohol consumption and the burden of disease: 2026 update including Mendelian randomisation studies.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Pooled it
- The Baltics: Benchmarking alcohol control reform for the European Union and surrounding countries.Addiction (Abingdon, England) · 2026Article
- Using a return on investment analysis to estimate the economic impact of potential changes to alcohol control policies in Estonia.European journal of public health · 2026Article
- The impact of an integrated alcohol policy: The example of Lithuania.Drug and alcohol review · 2025Article
- Trends of alcohol-attributable deaths in Lithuania 2001-2021: epidemiology and policy conclusions.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Not everyone benefits equally from Sunday alcohol sales bans: socioeconomic differences in alcohol consumption and alcohol-attributable mortality.International journal of mental health and addiction · 2024Article
- 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 · 2023Article
- 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 · 2023Review
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Abstract
aimsFrom 1 January 2018, the number of retail hours for the sale of alcohol was reduced from 14 to 5 hours on Sundays and from 14 to 10 hours on the other days of the week in Lithuania. The significant reduction of hours for the sale of alcohol on Sundays may have affected the distribution of alcohol-attributable deaths during the week. This study aimed to examine the change in the weekly pattern of alcohol-attributable male mortality before and after imposing limits on the hours when alcohol can be sold.
methodsAge-standardised male death rates by days of the week were calculated for four groups according to cause of death: alcohol poisoning (X45), all external causes of death (V01-Y98), diseases of the circulatory system (I00-I99) and all other causes of death. We compared age-standardised death rates for two periods: before (2015-2017) and after (2018-2019) the intervention. Mortality and population data were obtained from the Lithuanian Institute of Hygiene and Human Mortality Database.
resultsWe found that during 2018-2019, earlier observed peak in age-standardised death rates for external causes of death on Sunday diminished, and this day no longer differed from the weekly average. The same tendency was also observed for the Monday excess mortality due to circulatory diseases.
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