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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Jaclyn R. Farquhar, MD July/August 2016
... one in four adult Canadians, or about 6.3 million people, were obese. Since 2003, the proportion of obese ... been well quantified is the care gap that can occur when people with an illness need but do not receive treatment.[ 33 ...
Clinical Articles / BY: Romayne Gallagher, MD, CCFP(PC), FCFP June 2016
... are capable of ignoring the conditions which make muted people suffer. The dissatisfied dead cannot noise abroad the ... to result in death. But medicine’s ability to rescue people from the cliff of sudden fatal illness has led to the ... being aware of what specialized palliative care can do for people with advanced illness is the standard of care today. ...