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Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew R. Woolfenden, MD, FRCPC April 2002
... including 10,000 British Columbians, suffer a stroke. [1,2]  There are 300,000 stroke survivors living in Canada, of ... or transient ischemic attack (TIA) (relative risk [RR] 2.5)  •  History of hypertension—controlled or ... with moderate to severe left ventricular dysfunction. (RR 2.5) [ 15]  Enlargement of the left atrium was not an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kathleen M.N. Lee, RDN April 2002
... with the intent of recruiting 7,000 to 10,000 subjects. [ 2]  The primary purpose of the study is to compare ... over 6 months, which corresponds to a decrease in BMI of 2 units. [ 16]  If the weight loss goals are achieved in 6 ... Table 1  and some drug treatments outlined in  Table 2 . Among the causes of refractoriness to weight loss, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Patricia Clugston, MD, FRCSC, FACS April 2002
... is now widely accepted as safe and effective. [ 1,2]  Although several studies have demonstrated the ... risk of local recurrence with skin-sparing techniques. [ 2,7] The benefits of immediate breast reconstruction include ... a deciding factor than the disease stage (36%) ( Table 2 ). Only 14% of the surgeons surveyed discuss reconstruction ...
Clinical Articles / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... medicine of herbal origin have recently been reviewed. [2]  They include Stevens-Johnson syndrome, [3]  generalized ... Chinese herbal medicine is allergic contact dermatitis. [2,9]  It is caused by topical Chinese patent medicine and ... • Discontinue your natural health products at least 2 weeks prior to surgery because of potential effects on ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... seen particularly in patients with diabetes. [2,3]  Approximately 80% of patients with adult onset ... coronary event. [5] Interestingly, diabetic women have 2.5 times greater risk of CHD death compared to diabetic men. ... disease at all levels of risk factors ( Figure 2 ). Of the major causal risk factors (age, smoking, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD May 2002
... decade of 0.9 per 100 000 ( Figure 1  and  Figure 2 ). The remaining seven cases were non-invasive ... to a rate of 1.7 per 100 000 for this age group—2.4 times higher than the overall population rate. The ... trends, the highest rate of serogroup B disease in 2001 (2.4 per 100 000) occurred in infants less than 1 year of age. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP May 2002
... and specialists were surveyed ( Table 1 ,  Table 2  ). [14,15] Van der Weyde and colleagues sent ... not less satisfied than their urban counterparts ( Table 2 ). According to the October 1998 survey, overall quality of ... not individual physicians. [29] Table 1  and  Table 2  show that rural physicians are least satisfied (mean ...
College Library / BY: Jim Henderson May 2002
... of  Cites & Bytes , first when the issue came out, then 2 weeks later. Had you tried to find the full text, you would ... account) or both. This figure rose to 45.5% (20 of 44) in 2 weeks; five MDConsult articles were not immediately posted ... them with incorrect addresses; all errors were corrected 2 weeks later. Another 6.8% were guidelines not available on ...
Letters May 2002
... should be on salary like any public servant.” Character #2: “My parents really sacrificed for me to go to medical ...
Letters / BY: Yolanda Butt, BSc, MA May 2002
... conceptions regarding safety and invasiveness of IUDs. [2]  Furthermore, if the Viking is to represent a physician, ... than 55% of the entering classes for medicine in the last 2 years at UBC have been women. It seems contradictory to ...