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  • A randomized controlled trial of pharmacist-led therapeutic carbohydrate and energy restriction in type 2 diabetes

    Nat Commun

    September 10, 2021

    Diabetes
    Eating Disorders & Nutrition

    Durrer C, McKelvey S, Singer J, Batterham AM, Johnson JD, Gudmundson K, Wortman J, Little JP

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  • Heart failure and atrial flutter: a systematic review of current knowledge and practices

    Diamant MJ, Andrade JG, Virani SA, Jhund PS, Petrie MC, Hawkins NM

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  • Quality-of-Life Outcomes After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation in a “Real World” Population: Insights From a Prospective Canadian Database

    Lauck SB, Yu M, Ding L, Hardiman S, Wong D, Sathananthan J, Ye J, Chan A, Hodge S, Robinson S, Wood DA, Webb JG

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  • Development of Acute Myocardial Infarction Mortality and Readmission Models for Public Reporting on Hospital Performance in Canada

    Ko DT, Ahmed T, Austin PC, Cantor WJ, Dorian P, Goldfarb M, Gong Y, Graham MM, Gu J, Hawkins NM, Huynh T, Humphries KH, Koh M, Lamarche Y, Lambert LJ, Lawler PR, Légaré JF, Ly HQ, Qiu F, Quraishi AUR, So DY, Welsh RC, Wijeysundera HC, Wong G, Yan AT, Gurevich Y

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  • Improving Treatment Together: a protocol for a multi-phase, community-based participatory, and co-design project to improve youth opioid treatment service experiences in British Columbia

    Marchand K, Tallon C, Katan C, Fairbank J, Fogarty O, Pellatt KM, Turuba R, Mathias S, Barbic S

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  • A Pilot Study to Predict Risk of IgA Nephropathy Progression Based on miR-204 Expression

    Kidney Int Rep

    June 5, 2021

    Diagnostics
    Nephrology

    Pawluczyk I, Nicholson M, Barbour S, Er L, Selvaskandan H, Bhachu JS, Barratt J

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  • The association of intraosseous vascular access and survival among pediatric patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest

    Besserer F, Kawano T, Dirk J, Meckler G, Tijssen JA, DeCaen A, Scheuermeyer F, Beno S, Christenson J, Grunau B, on behalf of the Canadian Resuscitation Outcomes Consortium

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  • Burden of disease among the world’s poorest billion people: An expert-informed secondary analysis of Global Burden of Disease estimates

    Coates MM, Ezzati M, Aguilar GR, Kwan GF, Vigo D, Mocumbi AO, Becker AE, Makani J, Hyder AA, Jain Y, Stefan DC, Gupta N, Marx A, Bukhman G

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  • Longitudinal uptake of the human papillomavirus vaccine among gay, bisexual and other men who have sex with men in British Columbia, Canada 2012–2019

    Sex Transm Infect

    August 16, 2021

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Vaccines

    Khatra J, Sang JM, Wang C, Bacani N, Lachowsky NJ, Grennan T, Burchell AN, Lal A, Roth E, Hogg R, Card K, Moore D

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  • Priorities for sexually transmitted infection vaccine research and development: Results from a survey of global leaders and representatives

    Vaccine X

    June 29, 2021

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs
    Vaccines

    Plotnikoff KM, Donken R, Smith L, Cameron C, LaMontagne DS, Bettinger JA, Sadarangani M, Grennan T, Racey CS, Hybiske K, Naus M, Monteiro A, Ogilvie GS

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  • Access-Site vs Non-Access-Site Major Bleeding and In-Hospital Outcomes Among STEMI Patients Receiving Primary PCI

    Thibert MJ, Fordyce CB, Cairns JA, Turgeon RD, Mackay M, Lee T, Tocher W, Singer J, Perry-Arnesen M, Wong GC

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  • Experiences of self-care during the COVID-19 pandemic among individuals with rheumatoid arthritis: A qualitative study

    Health Expect

    August 17, 2021

    Arthritis
    COVID-19
    Rheumatology

    Leese J, Backman CL, Ma JK, Koehn C, Hoens AM, English K, Davidson E, McQuitty S, Gavin J, Adams J, Therrien S, Li LC

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