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Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... on clofibrate and niacin, colestipol, or gemfibrozil.[ 5 , 7-13 ] On the whole, the drug trials were more successful at ... with established CAD and a serum cholesterol of 4.0 to 7.0 mmol/L (LIPID), and 3.2 to 6.2 mmol/L (CARE). Similar to ... AFCAPS/TexCAPS trial, this meant total cholesterol of 5.7 mmol/L and LDL-C of 3.9 mmol/L, and in the ASCOT-LLA trial, ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michael Bayliss, MD, FRCPC, September 2009
... intact, he was left with significant disability. On 7 February 2005, at the age of 82, Dr Swan died following ... catheterizations with the flow-directed catheter.[ 7 ] Sixty of these patients had successful catheter placement ... pulmonary catheterization was associated with a 7% incidence of infective endocarditis.[ 11 ]  Other ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Aneez Mohamed, MD, FRCPC, May 2009
... of greater than 0.908 mm. In the ARIC study,[ 6,7 ] every 0.2 mm progression in IMT measurements was ...
Premise / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, October 2009
... four humors: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile.[ 7 ] The central idea was that each humor was related to one ... First compared with the Second Clinic was 9.5% vs 2.6%, 7.8% vs 3.5%, 15.8% vs 7.5%, respectively. Autopsy examination revealed that these ...
Council on Health Promotion / BY: Margaret Yandel, RD, July/August 2009
... service establishments. Here’s what you should know. On 7 March 2009, the Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... access to clinical information at the point of care.[ 7 ] • Improving health delivery analysis through more ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Geoffrey W. Cundiff, MD, October 2009
... rates for the transobturator midurethral slings.[ 7,8 ] While surgical complications are attributable to the ...
News / BY: Mohsin Rashid, MBBS, FRCPC, June 2009
... in diag­nosis of celiac disease in Canadian adults is 11.7 years. Early diagnosis of celiac disease will prevent ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marilyn J. Borugian, PhD, December 2009
... majority of respondents (68.6% for urban practices and 59.7% for rural practices, P<.001) reported that they recommend ... age group of women to whom they recommend mammography, 73.7% of physicians chose the 40 to 79 age group ( Table 3 ).  ... and 2.6% chose the 50 to 65 age group, meaning that 21.7% of respondents chose groups that exclude women in their ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Ken Cooper, CPHIC March 2009
... exposure in the bedroom is thus estimated at 1 per 2.7 billion person-years. The number needed to vaccinate to prevent a single case of rabies in that context is 2.7 million at a cost of $2.1 billion in biologicals alone, per ...