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Clinical Articles / BY: Roger A.L. Sutton, DM, FRCPC, FRCP, FACP, December 2011
... of normal females, which results in different T-scores (0.5 to 1.0 SD units lower when normal male data are used) and ... of “osteoporosis” (defined as a T-score less than 22.5).  Using the normal, young male value, 3% to 6% of men ... an incident hip fracture during follow-up, between 64%[ 5 ] and 28%[ 6 ] of these fractures have been attributed to ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doson Chua, PharmD, BCPS(AQ), June 2011
... Hypertension Education Program (CHEP) guidelines.[ 4,5 ] Heart failure  Clinical trials uniformly show that ACEIs ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Philip E. Lee, MD, FRCPC, October 2011
... of the cognitive and behavioral changes observed in AD.[ 5 , 6 ] While direct replacement of acetylcholine may not be ... that is, higher doses of donepezil (10 mg versus 5 mg) are associated with marginal benefits over lower doses, ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Bonnie Henry, MD, MPH, FRCPC March 2011
... of 221 cases of LD in the previous year, 2007 (range 0 to 5 cases per physician); 1,459 (92%) indicated they did not ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Jeffrey R. Brubacher, MD, July/August 2011
... were almost twice as likely to have crashed their car.[ 5 ] Mann and colleagues analyzed surveys of Ontario adults ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Rob Gair, BSc (Pharm), November 2011
... SCr 167 µmol/L (estimated GFR 26 mL/min), potassium 4.5 mmol/L.  The patient appeared dehydrated with an ECG ... therapeutic serum concentrations ranging from 0.5 to 2.5 nmol/L.  Serum levels of approximately 1.3 nmol/L are ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Shahul Hameed, MD, May 2011
... is reduced in postmortem brain tissue of AD patients.[ 5 ]  Moreover, animal models of AD have dem­onstrated that ... and eventual paralysis and death, typically within 3 to 5 years of symptom onset. It is still not clear why the ... as well in a significant proportion of patients, with 5% having an overt frontotemporal dementia.[ 16 ] Other than ...
Family Practice Services Committee / BY: Greg Dines, September 2011
News&Notes / BY: Dan Small, PhD, MPhil Cantab, January/February 2011
... and wrote a great deal about Naicisyhp healing rituals.[ 3,5 ] His writings remained as the dominant authority for the ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, June 2011
... a time when standard therapies were mostly ineffective.[ 5 ] This stimulated the growth of “buyers’ clubs,” ... Furthermore, after 12 months of follow-up, “22.5 +/-5% of the 84 patients remained event-free and 58 +/-5% were ...