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Council on Health Promotion / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP September 2015
... to 21.8% in 2014, and in women from 17.4% in 2013 to 18.7% in 2014.[ 2 ] However, when compared to actual BMI ... rate of diabetes is also increasing. Data from 2014 show 7.5% of men and 5.8% of women having reported being diabetic. ... time for those age 12 and older decreased in 2014 to 53.7% (55.2% in 2013). BC rates were above average, second only ...
Beyond Medicine November 2015
... use of antibiotics, and, potentially, mortality.[ 3-7 ] Oseltamivir is an oral antiviral drug that is rapidly ... oseltamivir may reduce ICU admissions and mortality.[ 6,7 ] Current data do not suggest any increased risk to the ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Christine Halpert, RN, BSN, MA, June 2015
... manage pain related to their child’s immunizations.[ 4-7 ] There is increasing evidence that experiencing pain in ... can lead to needle fear and subsequent needle avoidance.[ 7 ] A survey conducted by Taddio and colleagues found that ... 6 ] Parents trust information provided by physicians,[ 7,8 ] making family physicians an important source of ...
Billing Tips / BY: Keith J. White, MD October 2015
... did not overlap with alternate payment arrangements.  7.    Beneficiaries were not extra billed for benefits ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Amanzo A. Ho, BSc, April 2015
... change in bowel habits, abdominal pain, weight loss), 16 (7.3%) with a family or past history of colorectal cancer or ... colonoscopy or surgery was performed in 39 patients (17.7%), with reports available for 36 of these. Pathology ... 29 colonic lesions, including 6 advanced adenomas, 7 adenocarcinomas, and 1 peritoneal metastasis from a primary ...
Interviews / BY: Joanne Jablkowski September 2015
... there to make me more efficient in order to get me home by 7 p.m. There is no question that physicians need to be ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Basia M. Hamata, MD, January/February 2015
... ] The lipid phenotype frequently overlaps in FCH and FH.[ 7 ] To date, no specific genetic cause of FCH has been ... 5 ).[ 11 ] Familial low HDL Plasma HDL-C below about 0.7 mmol/L is usually indicative of an inherited mutation ... LDL-C > 4.5 mmol/L, triglycerides > 4.0 mmol/L, HDL-C < 0.7 mmol/L, non-HDL-C > 5.1 mmol/L, apoB > 1.3 g/L. In the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alister F. Frayne, MB ChB, MBA, CCFP, FCFP December 2015
... by all major primary care physician associations.[ 7 ] In 2001, the Fort Family Practice, a full-service ... from a physician not assigned to them dropped to 18.7% in 2008, and then returned to the more customary level of ... 0.1%, respectively, after previously steady levels of 15.7% in 2004 and 17.3% in 2006. From 2010 services rendered by ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Benjamin Matthew, MHSc, MD, July/August 2015
Backgound An estimated 1.7 billion people worldwide are affected by obesity (BMI ... hypercoaguability, cancer, and obstructive sleep apnea.[ 4-7 ] The total direct cost of obesity and related ... (baseline) Before surgery, patients had a mean BMI of 49.7 (range 35.9 to 70.9). Patients who underwent either a ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Roy Purssell, MD, FRCPC October 2015
... than MDMA. Algorithms for diagnosis have been proposed.[ 7,8 ] Patients with serotonin syndrome should receive ...