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BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC October 2004
... not appear to be supported by the existing literature. [2] Mercury exposure to the general population comes primarily ... 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. The 90th percentiles were 1.4 ppb (7 nmol/L) and 6.2 ppb (31 nmol/L) respectively. [4]  We lack comparable ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC November 2004
... 0 to 14 years, among the highest reported in the world. [2]  The prevalence of T1D (using 1990 American data) is ... more than 6200 expectant mothers worldwide during the next 2 years. Nationally, the Canadian Institutes of Health ... At least one company is said to be working on this. Phase 2 studies of Diamyd, a Swedish GAD protein-based oral ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Harvey Thommasen, MD, MSc, FCFP November 2004
... of adults, which means more than 1 million Canadians. [1,2] Having diabetes substantially increases one’s risk of ... with having diabetes. Thus, an important aspect of type 2 diabetes treatment is lowering blood sugar levels through ... prescribing the prophylactic use of acetylsalicylic acid. [2]  According to practice guidelines, initial and ongoing ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... group compared with the conventional therapy group (7.2% vs 9.1%, P<.001). The two target populations in the study ... the mean adjusted risk of microalbuminuria by 34% (95% CI, 2% – 56%) in the primary prevention cohort and by 43% (95% ... cardiovascular events in the intensively treated group (3.2 vs 5.4%, P = .08). At the end of the DCCT study, most ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... 100 000 children aged 0 to 14 years in Canada each year. [2] The state of complete insulin deficiency seen in T1D is ...
Clinical Articles November 2004
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2D) in children and adolescents is a ... prevalence in the Plains Cree people of Central Canada. [2-6] The Endocrinology and Diabetes Unit at BC’s ... exponentially. Who should be tested? The increase in type 2 diabetes among children appears to parallel the increase ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: David M. Patrick, MD, FRCPC, MHSc November 2004
... jurisdictions that have similar tracking capability. [1,2]  The overall rate of antibiotic use among outpatients in ... among a number of bacterial species in BC ( Figure 2 ) and among pneumococci nationally. [4]  Macrolide ...
Editorials / BY: Susan E. Haigh, MD November 2004
... the clinics assigned to residents/fellows allowed 11/2 hours for a new patient and 45 minutes for a follow-up. At ...
Letters / BY: H.C. George Wong, MD, FRCPC November 2004
... used for rheumatism by an 80-year-old Chinese patient. [2]  The elevated blood mercury level returned to normal ... in both Chinese and Caucasian patients seen locally. [2,10-13] It is important for physicians to ask all patients ... with dermatological, neurological, or renal abnormality [2]  who are taking Chinese herbal medicine or Chinese patent ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M.C. Ashe, MSc December 2004
... care costs for osteoporosis exceed $1.3 billion annually. [2] People who sustain a low-trauma fracture (falling from a ... have about twice the normal risk for subsequent fracture [2]  and an up to seven times greater risk of suffering a ... review of a large database that only 9.8% of the women and 2.9% of the men were screened for osteoporosis. Here in ...