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Clinical Articles /
BY: Jennifer Smith, BFA
January/February 2016
... public health and has reported that more than 1.2 million people are fatally injured every year.[ 1 ] Although Canada ...
Council on Health Promotion /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
January/February 2016
... insist that it is not worth it to explain all of this to people who are already very sick, keep in mind a 2011 study ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC,
March 2016
... vagal tone followed by increased sympathetic tone. As people age, beta-receptor responsiveness decreases, leading ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ahmad Abdullah, MD,
April 2016
... North American incidence is 8 to 12.6 cases per 100 000 people.[ 4 ] To our knowledge, data are not currently ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Michael W. Luong, MD, FRCPC,
April 2016
... cardiomyopathy was the most common cause of SCD in young people in the Veneto region of Italy.[ 1 ] This finding, ... lead to ventricular fibrillation and is seen commonly in people of Southeast Asian ancestry. In European studies of ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: James McKinney, MD, MSc,
April 2016
... Aerobics Center Longitudinal Study[ 4 ] of 13 344 healthy people. The subjects included in the study had no personal ... due to cerebrovascular diseases.[ 17 ] Physically inactive people have a significantly elevated stroke risk (RR 1.60).[ ... risk of developing cancer among physically inactive people.[ 4,20 ] In the NHANES I survey, physical inactivity ...
Letters /
BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP
April 2016
... in the article, this was a superficial analogy to get people thinking. And it seems to have triggered some thinking ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Katherine Shoults, MD,
May 2016
... oxide abuse specifically, but it is estimated that 40% of people who claim to use inhalants concomitantly abuse nitrous ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Ivana Jakovljevic, MD
October 2016
... by 25% in British Columbia since 2008. Over 97 000 people used the food bank last year in BC, with 31% of users ... specific questions for families with children, seniors, people with disabilities, and First Nations patients living ...
Clinical Articles /
BY: Bakul Dalal, MD,
July/August 2016
... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people.[ 1 ] Patients with PNH lack a protein called ... and at a rate of approximately 5 to 10 cases per million people. Now that a highly effective treatment is available ...