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Clinical Articles / BY: Jana Patenaude, BSc, MSc October 2005
... it is estimated that the prevalence of diabetes will reach 7.1% by the year 2010. [2] Aboriginal people as a group ... provinces and Ontario having the highest rates, at 8.7% and 7.6%, respectively, while British Columbia, Yukon, and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David A. Wood, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... on cardiovascular mortality in patients with diabetes. [7]  There is now a general consensus that lowering lipid ... total cholesterol levels <4.5 mmol/L, and triglycerides <1.7 mmol/L. In addition, the patients in the intensive therapy ... the year 2000. The trial was conducted, on average, over 7.8 years. The cardiovascular events comprised death from ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cynthia Fan, MD October 2005
... in 2004. The associated changes in cost were 13.3%, 18.7%, and -0.5%, respectively, with the disproportion due to ... specialties with moderate albumin use were anesthesiology (7.1%), gastroenterology (6.6%), and critical care medicine ... 18.9%  15.0%  14.8%  9.4%  6.3%  5.6% 5.3%  3.0%  2.7% 2.4%  2.3%  2.2%  2.1% 2.0%  1.8% 1.6% 1.5%  1.1%  ...
Premise / BY: James E. Miles, MD, FRCPC October 2005
... one missed diagnosis of bacterial meningitis in an ER. On 7 April 2005 is an article entitled, “What are ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Don Graham, MD, CCFP October 2005
... 2 (OR2) 8.3 70.21 Hand Therapy 9.2 68.80 Chronic Pain (CP) 7.8 61.19 Medical and Return-to-Work Planning Assessment ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS November 2005
... for the routine use of these drugs in late disease. [7] Recently, another class of pharmacological treatment with ... in people with moderate to severe AD (mean MMSE score 7.9, range 3 to 14, cognition measured by SIB). [8]  Another ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2005
... [6]   • The Cornell Scale for Depression and Dementia [7]   • The Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) [8]   • The ... memory books). 6. Identify relevant psychosocial factors. 7. Educate caregivers. 8. Employ behavioral management ...
Clinical Articles / BY: B. Lynn Beattie, MD, FRCPC November 2005
... dementia with tangles” was first described by Ulrich [7]  and later referred to as a “neurofibrillary tangle ... The incidence of this subtype of dementia ranges from 0.7% to 7.7% in several autopsy series and reached 8.3% and 10.2% in ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Randy N. Ross, MSc November 2005
... through the Occupational Health and Safety Regulation (7.42). [2]  By default, the individual user in some ...
Editorials / BY: B. Lynn Beattie, MD, FRCPC November 2005
... In a previous issue (BCMJ September 2004;46[7], “The new era of treatable Alzheimer disease”) we ...