Interviews /
BY: Jay Draper
September 2012
... a solo practitioner by default. A solo practitioner 24/7, unable to get locum coverage, so when I went away I just ...
Letters /
BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC
September 2012
... SAE data continues to appear in publications by the TI.[ 5-7 ] Also, the statistical analyses performed by BCHA P&T on ... remarkably similar to the latter publication by the TI.[ 7 ] The reviews completed by the Common Drug Review of ...
News /
BY: Tara Lyon
September 2012
... Duncan and has been enrolled in highland dance since age 7. She has competed in BC, Ontario, and California, and ...
News&Notes /
BY: Gerd A. Asche, MD
September 2012
... His flight medical was current; his last ECG was dated 7 January 2003. The aircraft journey log recorded 2132.76 ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Simon W. Rabkin, MD, FRCPC, FACC
October 2012
... been identified in both overweight and obese patients,[ 7 ] and achieving blood-pressure control is known to be more ... a low-sodium diet reduced systolic blood pressure by 22.7 mm Hg and diastolic blood pressure by 9.1 mm Hg.[ 11 ] ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Nadia A. Khan, MSc, MD
October 2012
... was found for DBP in placebo-treated patients.[ 7 ] Furthermore, in a trial of lipid-lowering therapy in ... about 55 mm Hg did not increase cardiovascular mortality.[ 7 ] Hypertension and diabetes mellitus The combination of ... standard treatment group. After a mean follow-up of 4.7 years, the use of intensive BP lowering was not found to ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Zena L. Simces, MA,
October 2012
... reduced cardiovascular events and mortality.[ 6 , 7 ] In patients who were 80 years of age or older and had a ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD,
October 2012
... estimated to be almost $2.4 billion in 2007.[ 7 ] Blood pressure measurement Blood pressure measurement is ... risk than hypertension diagnosed using ABPM. In a 7-year follow-up study of 5918 patients in primary care, the ... hypertension (25.3% of the population studied) was 6.7 (95% CI 5.3–8.5) compared with 8.8 (95% CI 7.6–10.1) ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Katie Wiskar, MD, FRCPC
October 2012
... eat or drink properly, if at all, during working hours.[ 7 ] Furthermore, the effects of a nutritional intervention by ...
Premise /
BY: Keith M. Laycock, MB, ChB (Edin), MCFP, Dip Sport Med,
October 2012
... with the combination with methylprogesterone acetate.[ 7 ] As the women of an age to be referred to the new clinic ...