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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Margaret Yandel, RD, July/August 2009
... saturated fat raises both LDL and HDL cholesterol.[ 1 ] According to Stener and Dyerberg, “Gram for gram, trans ... all other foods to 5% of total fat content of the food.[ 1 ] To ensure industry is making progress in meeting the ... phone line through Dietitian Services at HealthLink BC (8-1-1) have been developed. —Margaret Yandel, BHE —Kathy ...
Letters / BY: Shefali Raja, BSc, July/August 2009
... levels and the guidelines limiting mercury to below 1.0 ppm and 0.5 ppm for most fish and shellfish species sold ... the mercury level in different fish species into low (<0.1 ppm), moderate (between 0.1 ppm and 0.5 ppm), and high (>0.5 ppm) making them easier to ...
Letters / BY: Gerald J.M. Tevaarwerk, MD, FRCPC July/August 2009
... definition of the disease has ever been advanced.”[ 1 ] The proponents postulated that the “sensitivity” to ... costs and had their medical licence on probation for 1 year.[ 4 ] It is not surprising that this presumed disorder ...
Letters / BY: Karen Fediuk, RD, July/August 2009
... Columbians limit consumption of all types of canned tuna[ 1 ] whereas Health Canada currently recommends limiting ...
MDs To Be / BY: Sadiq Abdulla, BA, July/August 2009
... be difficult—a problem documented from the early 1980s.[ 1 ] As a consequence, the Faculty of Medicine at the ...
Physician Information Technology Office / BY: Jeremy Smith, July/August 2009
... click,” he says. “With paper, it potentially took 1 or 2 days to get the typed report, then my MOA had to get ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: D. Barry Carruthers, MD, CCFP, CIME, FCBOM, July/August 2009
... 5 µm are deposited in the upper airway. Particles in the 1-µm range travel to the alveoli. Instead of being engulfed ... forced vital capacity, reduced forced expiratory volume in 1 second, and reduced total lung capacity. Diagnosis If you ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, September 2009
... Swan was born in the small town of Sligo, Ireland, on 1 June 1922. He was the son of two Catholic doctors in a ... passing a urethral catheter through his own elbow vein.[ 1 ]  Following the publication of Forssmann’s findings, ... became a valuable tool for measuring hemodynamics ( Table 1 ), gas exchange, and heart-lung interaction,[ 5 ] with the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marion Thomas, PhD, September 2009
... came from the family history. John’s pedigree ( Figure 1 ) demonstrated a classic X-linked recessive pattern of ... Numerous methods are currently in use for SNP genotyping.[ 1 ] One of these methods,[ 2 ] a high-throughput SNP ...
Back Page / BY: Maggie Watt, MD, CCFP, September 2009
... care unit agonizing over our son (on C-section post-op day 1), she told me to wait another 30 minutes for my measly ...