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Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... intermittent therapy, where men typically spend 6 to 9 months alternating on and off the drug, is not of proven ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD November 2003
... Sun that the cesarean section rate in BC has risen to 27.9%. Increases in maternal age, fetal weight, and multiple ...
Letters / BY: Anthony Taddei, PharmD March 2003
... of serious adverse effects of 7.8% with naproxen and 9.3% with rofecoxib, and a heart attack rate of 0.1% with ... events in the VIGOR study is open to debate. [8,9]  There is a reasonable body of opinion that this was the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John R. Graham, PhD October 2003
... for angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors and $9 million for calcium channel blockers (CCBs). For ... expenditures on the nitrates class over 3 years was $14.9 million less than they would have been in the absence of ... reference ACE inhibitor when Pharmacare imposed the RDP. [9,10]  Looking at all BC seniors who had been using an ACE ...
Clinical Articles / BY: John H. Hay, MB July/August 2003
... to up-regulate thymidine phosphorylase in tumor cells. [9] In additional to 5FU, two other classes of drugs have ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... steroids and diuretics may put athletes at higher risk. [9,13,14]  In addition, some competitive athletes such as ... dysfunction primarily occurs in younger patients (ages 9 to 43 years). [21]  There is also a gender bias, with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... is remote and uninhabited. [19]  Furthermore, more than 9 million commercial shipments enter Canadian ports each ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel W.L. Lai, PhD October 2003
... Being a female, [8]  having a lower level of education, [9]  living alone, [10]  having a lower income, [11]  and ... (n = 251) P  value Age (years), mean (SD) 70.22 (8.9) 70.16 (8.9) 70.33 (8.9) t = -.24 P  = .812 Gender (%) Female Male ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Norman Phillips MSc July/August 2003
... colorectal cancer was programmed using TreeAge software. [9]  The parameter values assumed by the model are given in ... deaths prevented† Colonoscopy at age 55 165 31.7 0.08 11.9 2.3 14.9 Colonoscopy at ages 55 and 65 192 40.5 0.13 19.7 3.2 18.7 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... reviewed many times (for a review see Genest and Pedersen [9] ), depends on the magnitude of lipid lowering. With ...