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Clinical Articles / BY: Andrea K.Y. Lee, MD May 2016
... with respect to frequency, pace, and quantity of jogging.[ 9 ] When joggers were compared with sedentary non-joggers, ... km), ultra-marathons (50 to 150 km), ironman triathlons (3.9-km swim, 180-km bike ride, and 42.1-km run), and ... ejection fraction (RVEF) decreased significantly by 9% ( P < .0001), while the left ventricular ejection fraction ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lisa Eunyoung Lee, January/February 2016
... therapy may not be effective and may even worsen NMOSD.[ 8,9 ] In addition to LETM and severe bilateral blindness, which ... included Chinese (10.1%), South Asian (7.2%), Filipino (2.9%), Southeast Asian (1.2%), Korean (1.2%), West Asian (0.9%), Japanese (0.9%), Black (0.8%), Latin American (0.8%), ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Hamish Hwang, MD, FRCSC, FACS January/February 2016
... to balance being a spouse, a parent, and a surgeon,[ 9 ] a goal important to both female and male surgeons.[ 10 ] ... holidays. Royal Inland Hospital had a mean (SD) of 6.5 (3.9) preimplementation events and 8.1 (2.9) postimplementation events per surgeon ( P  = ns).  ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA January/February 2016
... outside of the Greater Vancouver Regional District.[ 9,10 ] Despite an encouraging downward trend in fatal crashes ... (28.7%) were inadequately restrained, and both speed (45.9%) and impairment (49.0%) were factors. The vast majority of ... use is often overestimated.[ 14 ] Since about half (50.9%) of the vehicles of correctly restrained drivers in the ...
Letters / BY: Robert H. Brown, MD, CCFP January/February 2016
... old nightmare. Worldwide, governments have invested over $9 billion in stockpiling this most controversial drug. The ...
Letters / BY: Ashley Roberts, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2016
... for the treatment of influenza in most scenarios,[ 5-9 ] cost effectiveness and policy decisions regarding the ... Prevention) as well as in the UK, Europe, and Australia.[ 9,16-19 ] We hope that more effective antivirals become ...
News / BY: Erin Higgins, January/February 2016
... population. In 2011 the median age of Canadians was 39.9 years, compared to 26.2 years in 1971. Seniors have become ...
Premise / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP January/February 2016
... loss of independence, and before any new intervention.[ 9 ] •    Discuss prognoses with patients who want to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Stanger, MD, March 2016
... in our study was 14.85 points. Parker and colleagues[ 9 ] have discussed the need to establish the smallest amount ... threshold needed to achieve treatment effectiveness.”[ 9 ] An acceptable number of patients reaching an MCID would ... for implementation into clinical practice.”[ 9 ] We defined the MCID value for our study as an improvement ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, March 2016
... subjects who were able to exercise to a level beyond 7.9 METs had a significantly better cardiovascular prognosis ...