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Beyond Medicine, Interviews / BY: David R. Richardson, MD January/February 2022
... grew up with. There was a great sense of community, great people. We have always had lovely neighbors. Where’s your ... they’re wrong, and their failures. There are a lot of type-A people and we want control. I would admit it; it just ... populations. Also the changing dynamics of our patient profiles in our population; we’ve got an aging population, ...
MDs To Be / BY: Alessandro Cau, BSc (Hons) November 2022
Background Four million people currently live with chronic kidney disease in Canada, ... cotransporter-2 inhibitor (SGLT2i), in patients with type 2 diabetes, empagliflozin use was unexpectedly found to ... factors such as patient comorbidities and side effect profiles as well as which SGLT2i have documented renal and ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Martha Spencer, MD, FRCPC March 2017
... The NCA also spends time reviewing the amount and type of fluid intake, bowel elimination history, medical ... rate.[ 32 ] The efficacy and adverse effect profiles of all available antimuscarinics is generally ... phase 3 registration trials of mirabegron show efficacy in people older than 65 and 75, with evidence of safety over a ...
Clinical Articles / BY: James K. Lai, MD, CCFP, FCFP, April 2009
... determine the significance of differences between user profiles and EMR functions, and compare survey demographic ... that advanced the level of EMR functionality were user type, the extent to which paper charts were no longer ... to acknowledge the leadership and support of the following people, who all ensured the successful completion of this ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Nupura Krishnadev, MD, October 2008
... shown to be associated with weight gain, dyslipidemia, and type 2 diabetes. These adverse effects act synergistically in ... an elevated cardiovascular risk.  Studies suggest that people with schizophrenia are two to three times more likely ... or do they merely differ in their side effect profiles?  An understanding of the roles played by both ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Danuta M. Skowronski, MD, FRCPC June 2007
... back   Pandemics, from the Greek pan (all) and demos (people), are caused by the emergence of novel pathogens ... This first wave was seen as the mild “three-day fever” type of influenza.  The second wave was much more severe and ... to interpandemic death rates by age. Interpandemic profiles, however, may not be the best indicators of risk ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Cristina M. Aydin, BSc, October 2006
... 85% to 90% of individuals with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, characterized by insulin resistance and ... TZDs have been shown to improve plasma lipid profiles. [15] The short-term safety of TZDs has also been ... regimens, our results indicate that in the majority of people (84%) who are prescribed TZD medications, the therapy ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Michelle Fung, MD, FRCPC November 2004
Advances in the treatment of type 1 diabetes (T1D) in the past decade have occurred in the ... highlighted the importance of more physiological insulin profiles. Prevention of complications in type 1 diabetes The ... dosing Traditionally, health care providers aimed to train people with diabetes to use assigned fixed doses of insulin ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jiri Frohlich, MD, FRCPC May 2002
... of diabetes It has been predicted that up to 100 million people will be newly diagnosed with diabetes over the next ... abnormalities associated with insulin resistance in type II diabetes,”  below) or possibly the changes in ...  Thus, in very high-risk patients who have normal lipid profiles, statin treatment may still be indicated if serum ...