Letters /
BY: Kukuh Noertjojo, MD,
March 2011
... our article on chronic pain was simply searching (of level 1 or 2 evidence), appraising it, and summarizing it. As such, ...
MDs To Be /
BY: Blair G. Fulton, MASc,
June 2011
... of our time and are of great concern to most Canadians.[ 1 ] In 2007 the General Council of the Canadian Medical ...
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 ...