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Clinical Articles / BY: Albert W. Chan, MD, FRCPC, January/February 2009
... obstructive extracranial carotid artery disease.[ 4-7 ] While neuroradiologists have traditionally been ... (SD 8.1%), and the mean stenosis after CAS was 4.1% (SD 10.7%). While undergoing CAS, some patients also underwent ...
President's Comment / BY: Brian Brodie, MD July/August 2009
... like ours are today? Many physicians can do their thing 7 days a week and never exhaust the demand for their talent ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gerry Greenstone, MD, May 2009
... and contaminated crabmeat transported in luggage.”[ 7 ] Chlolera has continued to be a menace throughout the ...
News / BY: Ron Wilson, MD, CCFP October 2009
... per day (76 calories) can lead to a gain of 3.4 kg (7.5 lbs.) of weight over 1 year if nothing else were to ...
BC Centre for Disease Control / BY: Gregory D. Deans, MD, MHSc, FRCPC July/August 2009
... therapy. They should stay home from work and school until 7 days after symptom onset and should be instructed to ...
Obituaries / BY: Harold G. Hunt, MD, March 2009
... playing hockey. Unfortunately, John developed diabetes and 7 years ago began dialysis for associated renal failure. ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Howard N. Fenster, MD, FRCSC, October 2009
... complications, but they are described as uncommon.[ 2-7 ] As a surgeon who is seeing increasing numbers of the ...
ICBC / BY: Laura Jensen, MD, June 2009
... with the whiplash injury.[ 5,6 ] Kongsted and colleagues[ 7 ] conducted a prospective trial on 178 patients with ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jason Andrade, MD, FRCPC, December 2009
... =.09) and risk of stroke (OR 0.5; CI 0.14–1.83; P =.30).7 Similarly, there was no difference in quality of life ... a significant reduction in cardiovascular mortality (2.7% vs 3.9%) arrhythmia-related mortality (1.1% vs 2.1%) as ... cardiovascular and arrhythmia-related mortality benefit (2.7% vs 3.9%; HR 0.71; CI 0.51–0.98; P=.03; and 1.1% vs 2.1%; ...
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, ...