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WorkSafeBC / BY: Celina Dunn, MD, CCFP, CIME March 2012
... herniorrhaphy, mean and median convalescence times were 13.5 and 14 days, respectively. Additional review by the EBPG ... with return to activity, including work, occurred after 18.5 and 9.7 days, respectively. Again, these times were quite ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD, April 2012
... risk. However, these mutations account for only 5% to 10% of all breast cancers.  Other factors, including ... whereas women at high risk un­derestimated their risk.[ 5 ]  Given that a recent meta-analysis[ 6 ] showed women’s ... woman’s risk of developing breast cancer within the next 5 years and over her lifetime (up to age 90), and is based on ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David Creighton, MSc, April 2012
... a target serum 25(OH)D level of 50 nmol/L or greater in 97.5% of the population. Serum 25(OH)D levels below 50 nmol/L ... in the highest of seven quantiles of serum 25(OH)D (> 87.5 nmol/L), those in the lowest quantile (< 25 nmol/L) had a ... blood pressure by 3.3 mm Hg (n = 27153, P < .0001).[ 5 ]  A 2011 meta-analysis of 17 observational studies ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD April 2012
... patients •    Be brief, as conversations as short as 5 minutes can have an impact on patient behavior.[ 4 ] ... for disordered eating (see the SCOFF Questionnaire box).[ 5 ] Disordered eating attitudes and behaviors are ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Liza Kallstrom, April 2012
... process in motion (e.g., a phone call once a week).  5. Encourage your patients to bring support people or family ...
Letters / BY: Lloyd Oppel, MD, MHSc, FCFP(Em) April 2012
... live longer, and have an improved quality-of-life.”[ 5 ]  Some of the advice from InspireHealth is indisputable: ...
Letters / BY: J. Gord McInnes, MD, FRCPC, April 2012
... intake diet and their potassium levels were checked 5 days later.  The first group had a reduction from 6.6 to 5.2 mEq/L in their serum potassium while the second group ... potassium diet may assist in lowering serum potassium over 5 days. In 1998 a study was published in the Journal of ...
MDs To Be / BY: Annika Klopp, BSc, April 2012
... knowledge is through cultural immersion in a population.[ 5 ] Morgan and Reel argue that cultural immersion is not only ...
President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, April 2012
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew J. Juren, MD, May 2012
... 1950s 80% of middle-aged men in the UK smoked and only 0.5% said they had never touched a cigarette. The Second World ... of men dying before age 70 dropping from 20% in 1970 to 5% in 2005, the year of Doll’s own death.  Doll’s ... thrombosis was directly related to the amount smoked.[ 5 ] Doll sent follow-up questionnaires to the surviving ...