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Letters / BY: Andrew Farquhar, MD March 2003
... and lipids to CDA recommended goals of <130/80 and LDL <2.5 respectively (for which, incidentally, we have very ... (which render normoglycemia virtually impossible). [2-5] This is not to diminish the importance of efforts at ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... have been a leading cause of death in the province. [5]  The neighborhood is the most impoverished urban area in ... the leading causes of death in many large US cities. [2,5]  In Baltimore, for example, overdose deaths increased by ... costs are estimated to cost Canadians in excess of $5 billion annually. [11] Illicit drug use also places ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... in substantially increased condom use, from less than 5% at baseline to 71% at 1 month follow-up and 77% at 18 ...
Editorials / BY: Perry Kendall, OBC, MBBS, MSc, FRCPC April 2003
... HIV incidence is now showing a small but significant (6.5%) increase. The past decade also saw the emergence of ...
Letters / BY: H. Ewart Woolley, MD April 2003
... to parents.” I recently had the good fortune to spend 5 days in Bella Bella which, apart from being an island, has ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel Lin, BSc May 2003
... and reliability of these structured interviews, [4,5]  while in other studies they are used as methods to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terence W. Anderson BM, BCh, FRCPC, PhD May 2003
... estimates for four categories of spinal cord injury at 5-year intervals between ages 5 and 80. [2]  The top line of  Figure 1  shows the ... than using the SMR (the ratio O/E) to multiply the rates. [5]  In life expectancy studies this difference between ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Stuart Johnston, MD May 2003
... of telemedicine projects across Canada and the world. [5]  Telehealth also has the potential to decrease costs for ... present at only six of 116 videoconferencing sessions (5%). [35]  In the Vanderhoof-Stoney Creek telehealth ... and lack of evidence showing cost-effectiveness. [2,5,36-39] With respect to the Vanderhoof-Stoney Creek ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... vomiting, and diarrhea are more frequent with LHRHa (5% v ~1%). Withdrawal from LHRHa occurs in 0% to 8.3% ... to date, from the US Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study, [5]  showed that those men who chose LHRHa had increased ... addressing this issue are unlikely to report within 5 years. Alternatives to either form of castration include ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... preoperative radiation regimen—using five fractions of 5 Gy given over 5 days followed by surgery—reduced pelvic recurrence and improved 5-year survival rates compared to surgery alone. [3]  The ...