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Clinical Articles / BY: Giselle Hunt, BSc May 2021
... in part by reducing the quality of their sex lives.[ 7 ] Studies also suggest that there are higher rates of ... and emotional distress in women with the condition.[ 7 ] The direct and indirect annual costs, including health ... present, from an odds ratio of 5.0 with one symptom to 84.7 when seven or more symptoms were present.[ 6 ] The ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... hospitalizations among 12- to 17-year-olds increased 2.7-fold.[ 3 ] Meanwhile, previous research by our group ... to 14-year-olds and $426 million for 15- to 19-year-olds.[ 7 , 8 ] The per capita cost of suicide and self-harm in BC is ... with all other age groups [ Figure 2A ]. Rates increased 2.7-fold from 24.0 (17.9–30.0) to 64.7 (54.3–75.0) per ...
News / BY: Kerri Farrell May 2021
... Schedule appointments with insurance advisors via a 24/7 online booking system. Use enhanced videoconferencing ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) May 2021
... content. One US investigation found alcohol levels of 7%, higher than that of beer.[ 2 ] This ability of kombucha ...
Premise / BY: Christopher O.Y. Li, BSc May 2021
... and the suicide rate among Indigenous youth is 5 to 7 times higher than in their non-Indigenous peers. Today, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Raiya Suleman, BHSc May 2021
... limited initiatives exist that target social isolation.[ 7 ] Additionally, the 2019 BC Centre for Disease Control ... loneliness in senior housing communities and found that 42.7% of older adults living in these communities were ... 22 ] A follow-up study based on this program was conducted 7 years later and demonstrated that the control group had ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lise Leveille, MD, MHSc June 2021
... the physis and cause associated growth abnormalities.[ 7 ] However, more recent evidence has shown that ACL ... patients were identified and had a mean age of 14.7 years (range 9–17) [ Table 1 ]. Fifty-five patients were ... sports: the most common sports included soccer (23, 27.7%), basketball (12, 14.4%), skiing (5, 6.0%), volleyball (4, ...
Clinical Articles, COVID-19 / BY: Ahmer A. Karimuddin, MD, FRCSC June 2021
... or presymptomatic at the time of elective surgery.[ 6 , 7 ] Although many infected patients are completely ... 0.20%, the number of excess deaths is estimated to be 11.7. It is important to note that the number of excess deaths ... of avoidable deaths that could occur is estimated to be 11.7 but could exceed 17.0. Given the risk of increased ...
MDs To Be / BY: Faizan Bhatia, MD June 2021
... summarizing articles, and managing social media accounts.[ 7 , 8 ] Sharing visual abstracts (visual summaries of an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Catherine Zhou, MD, MSc July/August 2021
... of peritoneal healing following surgery.[ 6 , 7 ] It is estimated that 93% of patients who undergo ... require hospital admission, the average hospital stay is 7 days, and the in-hospital mortality rate is 3%.[ 1 ] Small ... stay than the preimplementation group (4.15 days versus 7.22 days; P = 0.007). The result remained significant after ...