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Clinical Articles / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... high-risk criteria for carotid endarterectomy, including 17 patients who had experienced a recent acute coronary ... with significant risks of morbidity and mortality.[ 17-19 ] Through a strict blood pressure control protocol, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... of statin therapy was reported in 2002. The HPS study[ 17 ] examined over 20 000 high-risk patients with established ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... and incentives for information technology adoption[ 17,18 ] were used to compile a list for the relevant section ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2009
... complexities despite what was a seemingly simple assay.[ 17 ] Whereas specimen acquisition and initial processing ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Kristopher L. Schmidt, MSc, April 2009
... cases were 6 and 8.3 res­pectively. A majority of cases (17/23, 74%) were less than 12 months of age and 19/23 (83%) ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, April 2009
... Services Committee (GPSC) this April will launch a $1.17 million, 3-month pilot project linking central Vancouver ...
Letters / BY: Angus Rae, MB, FRCPC April 2009
... the pressure to research is ominous. As reported on 17 February 2009 in the CMAJ, “The potential for patients ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... of Agriculture defin­ition for a standard drink, which is 17.74 mL or 14 g of alcohol. This represents 44 mL (1.5 fl. ... of alcohol was similar between the sexes (18% in women and 17% in men) the slopes of the two curves differed, as seen ... of alcohol consumed daily (3.36 mm Hg per drink per day).17 That being said, a study of 14 125 known hypertensive men ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Kyle D. Burns, MD, FRCPC, June 2009
... incidence reported in prospective studies,[ 3 , 6 , 16 , 17 ] and is consistent with an incidence of 32% recorded in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, September 2009
... held a workshop in Alexandria, Virginia, in August 1997.[ 17 ]  Over 2 days, 85 experts reviewed the available ...