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Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC March 2011
... of the intima and media and the formation of a false lumen.5 This false lumen can extend proximally or distally, and may ... is modified with enhanced apoptosis and elastolysis.[ 5 ]  Atheros­clerosis leads to adventitial fibrosis and ... to degeneration and elastolysis of the aortic media.[ 5 ] As a consequence they are at risk for aortic aneurysm and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med, March 2011
... scores and ability to pass a simulated driving test.[ 5 ] Physical examination Although the most straightforward ... at age 80 and every 2 years thereafter to maintain a class 5 driver’s licence.10 Prior to 80 years, and setting aside ... risk is 1% under 65 years and then doubles for every 5 years of age, so that by 80 years the risk is 16%: those ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2011
... of 221 cases of LD in the previous year, 2007 (range 0 to 5 cases per physician); 1,459 (92%) indicated they did not ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Janet McElhaney, MD, March 2011
... undergoing an unprecedented demographic shift: in 2000, 12.5% of the population of British Columbia was aged 65 years, ... level of frailty, some improvement remains possible.[ 5 ] In a study by Lang and colleagues, researchers attempted ...
Letters / BY: G. Turnbull, March 2011
... six factors, one of which is memory, for which it has a 5-minute computer-generated test. This test has been ... memory: long-term, short-term, visual? Statistically, one 5-minute computer test is meaningless to assess such a ...
President's Comment / BY: Ian Gillespie, MD March 2011
... on what they want to do to interact with the electorate. 5.)  MEMBERSHIP ENGAGEMENT PRINCIPLE - The election process ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jack Teng, PhD, April 2011
... main disease host, deer mice ( Peromyscus maniculatus ).[ 5 ]  Examining ticks allows us to estimate the current ... structures, the 3' end of the 5S rRNA (rrf) and the 5' end of the 23S rRNA. The PCR was performed using a GE ... ; 17 Great Basin pocket mice,  Perognathus parvus ; and 5 Mon­tane voles,  Microtus montanus . These rodents were ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Kur, MD, FRCPC, ABIM April 2011
... in a region of more than 500000 people, while another 12.5% practise in a region of 300000 to 499999 people ( Figure 2 ... in BC today is equivalent to 32 rheum­atolgists working 5 days a week in a strictly outpatient setting.  Respondents ... rheumatologists indicating they plan to retire in the next 5 years and another 27.7% planning to retire in the next 10 ...
Back Page April 2011
... being the founder of ancient Egyptian medicine     5   Pioneer in the use of the electrocardiograph, Dr. Paul ... think-pieces     4   Skin opening     5   One of the people who discovered the structure of DNA ...
Council on Health Promotion April 2011
... if one becomes minimally active (30 minutes of activity 5 days per week). As doctors, we see the people who are most ...