Clinical Articles /
BY: Carolyn Gotay, PhD,
April 2012
... incorporated in medical care on a wide-scale basis.[ 7 , 8 ] Breast Cancer Prevention and Risk Assessment Clinic ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Janusz Kaczorowski, PhD,
October 2012
... estimated to be almost $2.4 billion in 2007.[ 7 ] Blood pressure measurement Blood pressure measurement is ... risk than hypertension diagnosed using ABPM. In a 7-year follow-up study of 5918 patients in primary care, the ... hypertension (25.3% of the population studied) was 6.7 (95% CI 5.3–8.5) compared with 8.8 (95% CI 7.6–10.1) ...
News
June 2012
... patient records for longer than the current requirement of 7 years. The BCMA was consulted twice in the last 5 years ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michelle Horn, BA,
March 2012
... involving first-generation antipsychotics declined.[ 7 ] In British Columbia, approximately one-third of ...
Letters /
BY: David B. Miller, MD, FRCPC
September 2012
... SAE data continues to appear in publications by the TI.[ 5-7 ] Also, the statistical analyses performed by BCHA P&T on ... remarkably similar to the latter publication by the TI.[ 7 ] The reviews completed by the Common Drug Review of ...
Letters /
BY: Stephen Malthouse, MD,
May 2012
... the excretion of arsenic in poisoned individuals.[ 6,7 ] One such study compared the results in two villages in ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ruth Elwood Martin, MD, FCFP, MPH
December 2012
... 6 ] even though only 3% of Canadians are Aboriginal.[ 7 ] In BC approximately 40% of women in the provincial ... system and 25% in the federal system are Aboriginal.[ 7 ] Incarcerated adult Aboriginal people are generally ...
BC Centre for Disease Control /
BY: Monika Naus, MD, MHSc, FRCPC, FACPM
January/February 2012
... physician, 15% will be assessed in an emergency room, and 7% will be hospitalized. Rotarix vaccine efficacy against ... entry and opportunistically to Aboriginal persons aged 7 to 18 years presenting for clinical services. The incidence ... A has declined in BC from 12.4 per 100000 in 1996 to 0.7 per 100000 in 2009, and this decline has been attributed to ...
Letters /
BY: Michael J. Passmore, MD,
July/August 2012
... but significant positive effect on caregiver burden.[ 7 ] The side-effect risks and the harm evidence for SGA ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: David Creighton, MSc,
April 2012
... observed in the above-mentioned epidemiological studies.[ 7 ] Low vitamin D and higher triglicerides/lower HDL ... P < .01) to have a fasting blood glucose greater than 7 mmol/L (n = 15088).[ 8 ] National Health and Nutrition ... (UVB) converts a cholesterol precursor in the skin, 7-dehydrocholesterol, to vitamin D precursors that are then ...