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Clinical Articles / BY: M. Koehle, MD December 2003
... asthma during the course of their disease. [2]  Exercise-induced asthma seems to have an increased ... asthma symptoms. These symptoms may last 1 to 2 hours following the cessation of exercise. High ventilatory ... of active patients with exertional dyspnea ( Table 2 ). Unlike exercise-induced asthma, these entities can limit ...
Editorials / BY: Patricia M. Rebbeck, MB, ChB, FRCSC July/August 2003
... of newly minted young doctors who intend to practise only 2 days a week. I hear of others who allot 4 minutes per ...
Editorials / BY: Brian Day, MB March 2003
... with a specialist will receive a consultation within 2 weeks. Those waiting longer will receive a refund ... their own consultation with anyone, anywhere they choose. 2. Patients with acute injuries or illness (e.g., fractures, ... funding. All children will be considered to be in category 2, 3, or 4. The suggested penalties for non-compliance may ...
Clinical Articles / BY: J. Rezmovitz, MSc November 2003
... untrained (defined as participating in exercise less than 2 hours per week) and did not meet any of the exclusion ... time the subject maintained platform stability within ± 0.2 for a maximum of 30 seconds. Each trial was terminated if ... the railing, could not maintain stability within ± 0.2 psi, completed the 30-second trial, or opened her eyes ...
Letters / BY: A. Krisman, MD June 2003
... letter “Re: Learning and teaching med,” ( BCMJ 2003;45[2]:72-73 ). I too believe that medical education suffered ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Barbara Cadario, BSc, BScPhm, MSc January/February 2003
... those resulting in hospital admission, are preventable. [1,2]  Prevention can be achieved by careful drug ... program is completely confidential. It takes only 2 minutes to fill out a report form—there is a copy in ...
Editorials / BY: James A. Wilson, MD September 2003
... but that is not common. For example, in the last 2 years the  BCMJ  Editorial Board rejected only 24% of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Terence W. Anderson BM, BCh, FRCPC, PhD May 2003
... on Dorothy’s life expectancy: one has suggested 4.2 years; the other 1.8 years. Each estimate was based on a ... cord injury at 5-year intervals between ages 5 and 80. [2]  The top line of  Figure 1  shows the proportional (or ... 30 years, with a drop of only 6% by age 50 (to 74%; 21.2 years vs the normal figure of 28.6 years). The rate of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC December 2003
... MRC/BHF Heart Protection Study in people with diabetes. [2]  Of more than 19 000 hypertensive patients, both men and ... of follow-up, the fact that the study was stopped nearly 2 years earlier than other statin trials, that blood pressure ... MRC/BHF Heart Protection study in people with diabetes, [2]  there was a significant reduction of 33% in vascular ...
Clinical Articles / BY: P. Terry Phang, MD September 2003
... as mean ± 1 standard deviation. Results Tables  1 ,  2 , and  3  give the summary data for gross specimen ... pathology data elements between 1996 and 2000 (Tables 1, 2, and 3). However, radial margin reporting increased from ... have occurred in Sweden, the Netherlands, and Norway [2-4]  from teaching by Dr Heald on the surgical resection of ...