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President's Comment / BY: Nasir Jetha, MD, September 2011
... (the latest year we have data for), nearly one-quarter (23.1%) of adult Canadians aged 18 or older were obese. The 2004 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger A.L. Sutton, DM, FRCPC, FRCP, FACP, December 2011
... fracture is substantially higher in men than in women.[ 1 , 2 ] Epidemiology Trauma (usually falls), reduced bone ... from aging of the population.  Although both the 1-year mortality and the need for institutional care after a ... females, which results in different T-scores (0.5 to 1.0 SD units lower when normal male data are used) and ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS April 2011
... please contact Julie Kwan at 604 638-8745, toll free at 1 800 665-2262, or at  jkwan@bcma.bc.ca .  —Sandie Braid, ...
Letters / BY: Adi Mudaliar, MD, CCFP July/August 2011
... at the 22nd Annual Drug Therapy Decision course on 1–2 April 2011. This course was sponsored by the ... •  In atrial fibrillation with a CHADS2 score of 1, 2, or 3 treatment with an oral anticoagulant is debatable. ... memorable learning points were that the Steno-2 Study[ 1 ] (which showed that long-term, multiple-risk factor ...
Premise / BY: Stuart Kreisman, MD October 2011
... of exposure to secondhand smoke can be considered safe.[ 1 ]  Certain individuals are at increased risk, including ...
WorkSafeBC / BY: Malcolm McLean, MD, December 2011
... (adaptation) from sudden loss of one eye is typical­ly 1 year or less. Those who experience sudden loss of vision in ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nathan W. Brunner, MD, FRCPC March 2011
... to be approximately 2.9 cases per 100000 patient years.[ 1 ] Dissection occurs most commonly in patients aged 60 to ... layers: the intima, the media, and the adventitia ( Figure 1 ).[ 4 ] Classic aortic dissection occurs when a tear in the ... dissection found in the IRAD registry are shown in  Table 1 . Staging   Several different staging systems have been ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Doson Chua, PharmD, BCPS(AQ), June 2011
... are the ALLHAT, the CAPPP trial, and the UKPDS.[ 1-3 ]  The ALLHAT compared lisinopril with conventional ... in all-cause mortality and morbidity. Landmark trials (CCS-1, GISSI-3, and SMILE) all uniformly demonstrated a mortality ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Brian F. Russell, MD, September 2011
... homeostasis and bone metabolism has long been recognized.[ 1 ] However, mounting evidence suggests that vitamin D may ... resulting in the hormonally active form of vitamin D, 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3), which is responsible for most if not all of the ...
MDs To Be / BY: Pamela Verma, BSc, November 2011
... www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_38931816104&ap=1 This article has been peer reviewed.   MDs To Be Shelley ...