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Clinical Articles / BY: Nancy Craven, MD, CCFP July/August 2005
... point of view, even practical. There are too many people at risk for kidney failure and too few nephrologists ... As stated in Recommendation 6 of the BC guidelines, “people with kidney disease have better outcomes if they take ... may have kidney disease. A large percentage of these people have diabetes, high blood pressure (the major causes ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Lesley A. Stevens, MD, FRCPC July/August 2005
... recommendations include regular testing for CKD in people at increased risk for CKD or with cardiovascular ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jay Draper July/August 2005
... health care system, and a vibrant medical profession. The people of British Columbia deserve no less.” Afternoon ...
News / BY: Sandie Braid, CEBS September 2005
... BC Children’s and BC Women’s launch online bookstore People seeking books about women’s and children’s health ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP September 2005
... physicians were counseled not to intervene with dying people. The Hippocratic tradition defined medicine as “to ... the patient. Consider yourself a lifelong learner—about people and about yourself. If self-reflection leads you to ... is dying? You will see that there are myriad ways that people can achieve growth through suffering. Many of the most ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Mark Adrian, MD, FRCPC September 2005
... shoulder and lumbar spine MRI findings in asymptomatic people are common, with the prevalence of abnormal MRI findings in asymptomatic people ranging up to 30% to 60%. [1,2]  Asymptomatic MRI ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Todd Cherniak, LLB September 2005
... the waiting periods are universally too long, with most people not able to obtain timely access to MRI except in the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jana Patenaude, BSc, MSc October 2005
... diabetes will reach 7.1% by the year 2010. [2] Aboriginal people as a group appear to be at increased risk of ... the prevalence rate of diabetes among the First Nations people in Canada is more than double the rate for the general ... of British Columbia. According to the 2001 census, 2260 people live in the Bella Coola Valley. [14,15]  Bella Coola ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Roger Y. Wong, MD, FRCPC, FACP, FCAHS November 2005
... from the time of diagnosis ranged from 8.3 years for people diagnosed with AD at age 65 years to 3.4 years for ... their behavior. Tracking the progression of impairment in people with late AD can be difficult because of many ... approaches are appropriate. Cognition in late AD People with late disease experience deficits in multiple ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Lou Donnelly, MD, CCFP, FRCPC November 2005
... Psychotic symptoms include misidentification of other people or self, delusions, and auditory or visual ...