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Clinical Articles / BY: Samantha Pawer, BSc May 2021
... [ Figure 3 ]. Conclusions Self-poisoning is a considerable issue in BC, where high rates and increasing trends among ... of young people age 14 to 21 in Victoria, BC, in 2003 and 2005, 17% of participants admitted to performing at least one ... 19,[ 17 ] mental health and antidepressant accessibility may have contributed to increased self-poisoning rates among ...
Beyond Medicine / BY: A.M. Ocana, MD, CCFP, ABAM January/February 2019
... you’re looking at this scientifically, you might have an issue with the correlation of use to health risks, because one “daily user” may smoke all day, every day, and another “daily user” ... marijuana urine drug screen, more than quadrupled between 2005 and 2014 (from 146 to 639).[ 25 ] That trend will ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Andy Jiang, BSc December 2018
... unstudied even though these are undoubtedly also an issue. Since a greater understanding of all-cause poisoning ... results that indicate the risk of unintentional poisonings may be intrinsically linked to a particular developmental ... opioid consumption in BC has increased 31% from 2005 to 2013,[ 19 ] suggesting a possible link between opioid ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Joshua Budlovsky, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... The presence of these risk factors suggests the patient may benefit from therapy to prevent fracture, but clinical ... Alendronate was first approved for use in 2000 and in 2005 a generic version became available. Almost immediately ... and back and joint discomfort.[ 35 ] Dyspepsia is not an issue. Rates of severe adverse reactions such as atypical ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Barbara N. Morrison, BHK May 2016
... deaths in the general population age 10 to 75 from 2005 to 2010 in France, researchers found 90% of cases ... have one additional cardiovascular risk factor.[ 6 ] The issue of cardiovascular pre-participation screening has been ... and elevated lipid levels.[ 12 ] Psychological stress may contribute to CVD risk by activating the sympathetic ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Gil Kimel, MSc June 2014
... and overall quality of life.[ 10 ] The ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of ... HF mortality.[ 5 ] Serum b-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) may be helpful for prognostication as well, since BNP levels ... revised version of the article published in the June 2014 issue ( BCMJ  2014;56:224-229). The authors corrected an ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Alison Granger-Brown, MA, December 2012
... and increase motivation for change—something that may be sustained after release from prison. Women in BC’s ... health initiative By Amy Salmon and Jeanine Thompson From 2005 to 2007 a partnership be­tween BC Corrections, the ... 25 ]  Infant safety has not been reported as an issue in numerous countries where prison infant and mother ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Margot Davis, MD, September 2010
... man despite his many accomplishments. He died 23 November 2005 of complications of Alzhei­mer disease at the age of ... by the Framingham algorithms.[ 16 ]  To address this issue, a number of other risk-prediction algorithms have been ... certain ethnic groups, the Framingham risk model may underserve women.  Studies have suggested that the ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Marc W. Deyell, MD, FRCPC, June 2010
... at US$66 677 in 2002.[ 16 ]  Based on these trials, the 2005 Canadian Cardiovascular Society/Canadian Heart Rhythm ... However, some individuals with better-tolerated VT may be amenable to antiarrhythmic therapy or to ablation ... presented in  Table 1 . ICDs for primary prevention The issue of which patients should receive an ICD for the primary ...
Clinical Articles / BY: David N. Landsberg, MD, May 2010
... After initial research probing societal views on this issue,[ 9 ] the first LAD transplant was perform­ed in 2005.  In this program, indivi­duals who have undergone ... to protect both the re­cipient and the donor. LAD kidneys may be given to a patient at the top of the wait list, or ...