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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ray Copes, MD, FRCPC December 2016
... to the outdoors without collecting in the basement.[ 5 ] Radon exposure and mitigation in BC In BC radon exposure ... levels be detected after the building is constructed.[ 5 ] Updates on efforts to address elevated radon in ... and install a soil depressurization system if necessary.[ 5 ] The BC Lung Association, through the public education ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara N. Morrison, BHK May 2016
... and cardiovascular risk assessment have been proposed.[ 5 ] When attempting to reduce the risks associated with ... abnormalities are predominately responsible.[ 5,6 ] The common feature of SCD in younger and older athletes ... they found that the relative risk (RR) during exercise was 5-fold higher in highly active individuals and 56-fold higher ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS October 2016
... 3 , 4 ] and to increase patient satisfaction.[ 3 , 5 , 6 ] This change has been facilitated by a move toward ... (ED) or walk-in clinic and readmission to hospital.[ 3 , 5 , 6 ] Readmission rates for ambulatory breast surgery are reported to be as high as 7%.[ 3 , 5 , 6 ] Fortunately, evolving technology has provided new ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Katherine Shoults, MD, May 2016
... abuse. She had abstained from crystal methamphetamine for 5 years and from alcohol for 2 months. She was working as a ... to 600 pmol/L) and an elevated homocysteine level of 14.5 µmol/L (normal range less than 12.9 µmol/L). ... case reports describe using 1 to 20 cartridges a day.[ 5 ]  Given that nitrous oxide is easy to acquire and ...
Letters / BY: Michael M. O’Brien December 2016
... good ol’ days. Nary an orphan in sight.” BCMJ 2016:58(5):244 ]. Why are there orphans now when there were none in ... to mid-1960s compared to close to 300 currently. That’s 5 to 6 times as many for a population that has increased only ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Darren E.R. Warburton, PhD May 2016
... disease, including diabetes, cancer, and hypertension.[ 5-8 ] However, there is also evidence of sudden cardiac death ... previously inactive individuals who improved enough over a 5-year period to move from the unfit to the fit category had ... cardiac death per 1.51 million sudden cardiac death per 36.5 million hours of exertion in women. Collectively, this ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Kathleen Cadenhead, MD May 2016
... Physical activity Canada’s Physical Activity Guidelines[ 5 ] recommend that adults engage in at least 150 minutes of ... is: I will increase brisk walking from 45 to 60 minutes 5 days of the week. Prevention Obesity prevention starts with ... It is well established that a loss of as little as 5% to 10% of one’s body weight can have significant ...
Obituaries / BY: Joan Wilson, BSc, DipEd December 2016
... learn more about patients by seeing them in their home for 5 minutes than he could by seeing them in the office for 25. ...
Letters / BY: Roger Purnell, MBChB, FRCSC May 2016
... for determining the need for total knee arthroplasty.[ 5 ] In similar fashion a further outcome study on the Oxford ...
Point Counterpoint / BY: Will Offley, RN December 2016
... Health Care,[ 4 ] the Interior Health Authority,[ 5 ] the Northern Health Authority,[ 6 ] the Provincial Health ...