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Clinical Articles / BY: Andrew R. Woolfenden, MD, FRCPC April 2002
... and the third leading cause of death in Canada. [1]  Each year, over 50 000 Canadians, including 10,000 British Columbians, suffer a stroke. [1,2]  There are 300,000 stroke survivors living in Canada, ... is a significant independent risk factor for stroke. About 1% of the population older than 65 has AF, and the prevalence ...
Letters / BY: Jim Henderson September 2002
... the  Journal of the American College of Cardiology  for 1 year. It cost me approximately the same amount for the  ...
Letters / BY: Bernhard Toews, MD May 2002
... What can be done? I would like to propose three solutions: 1. Full-service family doctors must be compensated at a ... than those without such training. 3. If suggestions 1 or 2 don’t work, I would suggest lobbying the CRTC to ...
Editorials / BY: Lindsay M. Lawson, MD November 2002
... of the chest has decreased from 6 to 8 weeks to less than 1 week. “A successful combination of private and public ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Samuel H. Krikler, MB, ChB, FRCPC March 2002
... of the HFE gene on the short arm of chromosome six. [ 1]  A major consequence of this discovery has been the ... using the method described by Feder and colleagues. [ 1] Ethics This study was approved by the Clinical Research ... figures show the distributions of serum iron ( Figure 1 ) and transferrin saturation ( Figure 2 ) for the study ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Robert Ferrari, MD, FRCPC July/August 2002
... of the 202 subjects involved in a rear-end car collision 1 year to 3 years earlier had persistent or disabling ... that could conceivably be linked to the collision. [1]  In this study, of 202 collision victims, 31 recalled ... a week and only two subjects had neck pain for more than 1 month. Due to recall problems, the true incidence of ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Bigham, MD May 2002
... meningococcal immunization program for all children 1 year of age, in addition to youths in grades 6 and 9, using ... an incidence rate of invasive meningococcal disease of 1.3 per 100 000, 44% above the average British Columbia ... rate over the previous decade of 0.9 per 100 000 ( Figure 1  and  Figure 2 ). The remaining seven cases were ...
Letters / BY: Michael Livingston, MD October 2002
... 30 years treating MVA musculoligamentous neck sprains [1]  as one would other sprains, and researching this common ... who received little or no therapy were symptom free in 1 month. None developed chronic disability. [7] Partheni ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Bruce Fleming, MD June 2002
... by the ever-present concern of cervical spine stability. [1-3]  An estimated 200 000 radiographs of the cervical spine ... in the exposure of patients to ionizing radiation. [1,4-6] Some authorities still recommend the routine inclusion ... finding of midline posterior neck tenderness is present. [1,3]  It is recognized that patients sustaining a cervical ...
Editorials / BY: Vera Frinton, MD October 2001
... Faculty of Medicine, UBC Editorials Menopause, Part 1—Women shifting gears (Guest editorial) ...