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Clinical Articles / BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc, April 2016
... for all-cause mortality and cardiovascular death (CVD).[ 2-4 ] Physical activity is an important determinant of cardiorespiratory fitness[ 4 ] and fitness is related to physical activity patterns.[ 5 ... to provide an objective measure of a subject’s fitness.[ 4 ] (See the  Box  for a definition of MET and other ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Andrew Hurlburt, MD April 2016
... in tropical, subtropical, and some temperate regions.[ 4,5 ] There have also been rare accounts of transmission by ... is expected due to the absence of an appropriate vector.[ 4,5]  An updated list of countries with known Zika virus ... to South America with her husband. She left on her trip 4 weeks ago and is currently 12 weeks pregnant. She has heard ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD April 2016
... Chronic kidney disease.  3.    Heart failure.  4.    Chronic respiratory condition (asthma, emphysema, ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Graham A.A. Dodd, MSc, MD, CCFP(EM), MADEM April 2016
... planning.[ 1 ] Recent disasters and events such as the 4.7 magnitude earthquake that rattled BC’s south coast in ...
Articles / BY: Caitlin Dunne, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... treatments wished to preserve her fertility.[ 3,4 ] An example of this would be a woman who banked her eggs ... embryos, the need to cryopreserve supernumerary eggs[ 4 ] sparked the development of a new, more efficient ... warming procedures, the vitrified egg survival rate was 90.4% and the oocyte-to-baby rate was 6.5%.[ 30 ] Since these ...
Letters / BY: Aidan Byrne, MD, FCFP, April 2016
... in underuse of beneficial medication in the elderly.[ 3,4 ] In closing, the foregoing suggests to me that older, ...
Letters / BY: Nevio Cimolai, MD, FRCPC April 2016
... following errant injections along the lateral arm.[ 2-4 ] Although subcutaneous injections should, in theory, avoid ...
Letters / BY: Meena Dawar, MD, MHSc, FRCPC April 2016
... is consistent with national and US recommendations.[ 3,4 ] While vaccines are very safe, an injection given in the ...
Articles / BY: Derek Plausinis, MASC, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... been the surgical treatment of choice for osteoarthritis,[ 4 ] but the results can be unpredictable when the humeral ... with a resurfacing implant or a stemless implant ( Figure 4 ). These newer implants are designed to minimize bone loss ... study reports lower complication rates of 7.0% overall (4.3% in primary procedures and 19.0% in revision ...
Articles / BY: Kelly L. Apostle, MD, FRCSC December 2016
... in the hip or knee and has a higher compressive modulus.[ 4,5 ] The ankle also has a smaller area of contact causing ... Database who had been followed for a minimum of 4 years after ankle replacement or fusion.[ 25 ] Although the ...