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Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara N. Morrison, BHK May 2016
... sudden cardiac arrest, and sudden cardiac death.[ 2,3 ] In a recent study of sports-related deaths in the ... a measure of more than 21 mL of oxygen per kg per minute.[ 2,3 ] Moreover, the risk of sudden cardiac death can be ... 56-fold higher in those with the lowest activity levels.[ 2 ] Albert and colleagues also demonstrated that habitually ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Karen Buhler, MD July/August 2016
... work together to develop careers and abilities.[ 2 ] The GPSC offers BC family doctors mentorship ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC, April 2016
... than 35, most cases are due to coronary artery disease.[ 2 ] More men than women experience SCD, with a male-to-female ... athletes and nonathletes age 1 to 19 years[ 12 ] and age 2 to 40 years[ 13 ] in Ontario. These studies found the ... during activity increased with age.[ 12 ] For those age 2 to 40, subjects younger than 30 were more likely to have a ...
Letters / BY: Murray Trusler, MD, MBA, FCFP, FRRMS, May 2016
... Rocket-AF 55% [rivaroxaban], Aristotle 62% [apixaban]).[ 2-4 ]  But warfarin can be managed at a TTR > 75%. To ... process. 1.    Patients attend the lab as usual. 2.    The INR is performed using an INR point-of-care ... patient self-management program (KIDCLOT) was studied over 2.7 years. Children and their parents managed warfarin at ...
News / BY: Ada Lo November 2016
... www.doctorsofbc.ca . —Ada Lo UBC Medical Student, Year 2 Doctors of BC Student Liaison News Planning your family: ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Linda M.N. Hoang, MSc, MD, DTM&H, FRCPC June 2016
... from 8.6 per 10 000 inpatient days in 2009–10 to 4.2 per 10 000 inpatient days in 2014–15. Among the ... which is double the number of those cases in 2009–10.[ 2 ] This increase in incidence of community-associated C. ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Michael L. Rekart, MD, DTM&H, MHSc December 2016
... for the treatment of genital chlamydia infection. [2]  A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials showed ... equal efficacy with no difference in adverse events. [2] Effectiveness In day-to-day usage, doxycycline and ... or 8 to 10 of the prescribed 14 doxycycline pills. [2] Antimicrobial resistance Azithromycin and other ...
MDs To Be / BY: Ben Chan, BSc, January/February 2016
... misleading link between vaccinations and autism[ 2 ]). How does one develop a great idea into a fully ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Muhammad Morshed, PhD, SCCM December 2016
... Clinic confirmed this as a new genospecies, B. mayonii .[ 2 ] B. mayonii was also identified in Ixodes scapularis , ... very closely related to the newly discovered B. mayonii .[ 2 ] The BCCDC Public Health Laboratory identified 18 samples ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Chris Rumball, MD October 2016
... system tripled between 2005 and 2014 from 3.4% to 12.1%.[ 2 ] Driver impairment from marijuana use may be different ...