Fig. 1
From: Cardiovascular diseases mortality and alcohol control policy in Lithuania: exploring a possible link
The trends in age-standardized mortality rates from cardiovascular diseases, ischemic heart diseases, cerebrovascular diseases and alcoholic cardiomyopathy per 100,000 people among Lithuanian men and women in all ages and in 25–64 years’ during 2001–2018. Note: Vertical lines illustrate time points of the five alcohol policies investigated in this analysis. As the mortality trends describes the end of the year state, each of the timeline policy points was visualized by setting it 1 year earlier with an aim to indicate an end of the year line before the initiation of a specific policy