“…The trend was similar in most other ex-Soviet Union countries, e.g. in Estonia the incidence increased during the early 1990s to 233 cases per 100,000 in 1993 and then declined again to 34 per 100,000 in 2003 [20,21], and in Lithuania the incidence rose to 152 cases per 100,000 in 1993 and then decreased to only 14 cases per 100,000 in 2004 [21,22].…”