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Clinical Articles / BY: Daniel L. Metzger, MD, FAAP, FRCPC November 2004
... the greatest increase being observed in children under 5; the reason for this remains unclear. [4] Risk factors Both genetic [5]  and environmental factor [6]  appear to contribute to ... risk of developing the disease, variably estimated at 5% to 7%, or approximately 30 times the risk for the general ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Brian McGowan, MD October 2003
... patients hospitalized at any given time. This represents 6.5% overall reduction in the bed base, or 11% of the ... • The average age of hospitalist patients was 64.5 compared with family physician patients at 72.3. • During ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Evan Wood, MD, PhD, ABIM, FRCPC April 2003
... have been a leading cause of death in the province. [5]  The neighborhood is the most impoverished urban area in ... the leading causes of death in many large US cities. [2,5]  In Baltimore, for example, overdose deaths increased by ... costs are estimated to cost Canadians in excess of $5 billion annually. [11] Illicit drug use also places ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... The tumor is located on the posterior wall of the rectum 5 cm from the anal verge. By palpation the tumor is mobile ... has been shown to decrease local recurrence to 4% to 5% in prospective national Dutch and Swedish trials. [1,2] ... associated with increased local recurrence ( Table 2 ). [5]  However, when we attempted to assess the presence of ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Martin Petric, PhD, FCCM March 2003
... diarrhea is now documented to be over 20% from less than 5% by previous estimates, implicating children as a source of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... 300 (81% men) with cholesterol (TC) concentrations below 6.5 mmol (average TC was 5.5 mmol/L, LDL-C 3.4 mmol/L and HDL-C 1.3 mmol/L) were ...
Letters / BY: Tom Pickles, MD, FRCPC June 2003
... vomiting, and diarrhea are more frequent with LHRHa (5% v ~1%). Withdrawal from LHRHa occurs in 0% to 8.3% ... to date, from the US Prostate Cancer Outcomes Study, [5]  showed that those men who chose LHRHa had increased ... addressing this issue are unlikely to report within 5 years. Alternatives to either form of castration include ...
Clinical Articles / BY: M. Ryan, MSc November 2003
... old, and 15.4% had shoes that were 1 to 2 years old. Only 5.1% wore shoes more than 2 years old. The majority of runners in 2000 (77.5% of 844) preferred running on roads, 20.1% preferred ... reported running 1 day per week, and 0.9% reported running 5 days per week. In 2000, one-half of those reporting an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Timothy K.S. Christie, PhD April 2003
... in substantially increased condom use, from less than 5% at baseline to 71% at 1 month follow-up and 77% at 18 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: C.J.H. van de Velde, MD, PhD, FRCS, FRCPS September 2003
... radiotherapy also improved the rate of survival at 5 years. [4]  The results of a large meta-analysis [5]  strengthened the idea that the combination of ... resections showed a cumulative risk of local recurrence at 5 years of 2.7% and overall corrected survival of 87.5% at 5 ...