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Clinical Articles / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... measures such as the Mini-Mental State Exam (MMSE), [9]  the Modified Mini-Mental State Exam (3MS), [10]  or the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.L. Davies September 2004
... the patient’s pain response to clinical tests. [9-12]  The straight leg raising test and the coughing test ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2004
... being between a couple of topics and both of them scored a 9.5 out of 10 on my personal rant-meter. The first of these ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... from performing the surgery earlier rather than later. [8,9]  All women considering prophylactic surgery are ... cancer before the age of 80 was recently estimated at 6.9%. This is 80 to 100 times higher than the risk in the ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... for 62.1% of the total and female practitioners for 37.9%. The median age of respondents was 45 years, with an age ... the health care system. More than half of respondents (57.9%) said that they had a copy of the Canadian STD Guidelines ... Canadian STD Guidelines. Have a copy of the guidelines 57.9% Rate the guidelines “very important” or ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC November 2004
... of this arm of the DPT-1 trial were published recently. [9]  Unfortunately, the parenteral insulin intervention had ... affect the rate of development of T1D in these subjects (9% per year in both the experimental and the control group). ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... by the results of the DCCT in 1993. [1]  The DCCT was a 9-year study examining the effect of conventional insulin ... compared with the conventional therapy group (7.2% vs 9.1%, P<.001). The two target populations in the study ... in insulin action depending on the site of injection. [9]  The various types of insulins and their respective ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... on early stages of retinopathy is not currently known. [9]  Recurrent nephropathy in transplanted kidneys can be ...
Clinical Articles November 2004
... adolescents newly diagnosed with T2D has increased from 9% to a maximum of 33% of diabetics. [1]  Given that 50% of ... resistance), compounded later by beta cell failure. [7,9,10] Although insulin resistance appears to have a strong ... the increasing rates of disease. Environmental factors, [9]  including obesity and physical inactivity, worsen ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2004
... in British Columbia has slowly declined from 18.5 to 15.9 defined daily doses per 1000 inhabitant-days between 1996 ...