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Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB July/August 2004
... Canadian hospitals due to adverse affects, and overall 7.5% of patients suffer serious adverse affects—double that ...
Letters / BY: Victoria J. Cook, MD, FRCPC July/August 2004
... in the field of TB. Enhanced surveillance of children 5 years and under and individuals with risk factors for TB ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... suggest that if the onset of AD could be delayed by 5 years, the prevalence would be reduced by 50% within that ... of dementia cases ( Table ), doubling in prevalence every 5 years after age 65. [8]  The key clinical phenotypic ... Mixed  Unclassifiable  Other Percentage (%) 47.2 8.7 5.4 2.5 33.8 1.8 0.6 Source: Adapted from Feldman H, Levy AR, ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2004
... 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 was ...
Editorials / BY: Howard Feldman, MD, FRCPC September 2004
... when touched. Her condition lasted until her death 5 years later, during which time there were no treatments to ... of Alzheimer disease (AD). Today, AD affects roughly 5% of the Canadian population older than 65 and is known to double in prevalence every 5 years after age 65. The implications for our graying ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Edna Durbach, Ed.D October 2004
... Department to review the chart and authorize access. 5. A consult has been made to the C&W Child Protection ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Charmaine Kim-Sing, MD, ChB, FRCPC October 2004
... important but relatively uncommon genes that account for 5% to 10% of all breast cancers. The counseling includes ... of multiple factors not attributable to BRCA1 or BRCA2. [5] Women who are carriers of BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations (and ... 30 years. Therefore, if she took tamoxifen for a period of 5 years, at the end of 10 years she would reduce her risk of ...
Clinical Articles October 2004
... practicality of HIV counseling guidelines used in Canada. [5] Research focusing on primary health care practitioners ... not having a copy of the CMA HIV testing guidelines. [5]  Studies from the early 1990s suggested that fewer than ... of Physicians and Surgeons family medicine membership (64.5% urban and 35.5% nonurban). The required sample size was ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC October 2004
... recent data indicate a mean blood mercury of 0.3 ppb (1.5 nmol/L) in children aged 1 to 5 and a mean of 1.2 ppb (6 nmol/L) in women aged 16 to 49. ... contained mercury at twice the Canadian guideline of 0.5 ppm. Investigation of exposure in the second case is still ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC November 2004
... the greatest increase being observed in children under 5; the reason for this remains unclear. [4] Risk factors Both genetic [5]  and environmental factor [6]  appear to contribute to ... risk of developing the disease, variably estimated at 5% to 7%, or approximately 30 times the risk for the general ...