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  • Barbour: C-terminal truncation

    July 22, 2019

    Dufour A, Bellac CL, Eckhard U, Solis N, Klein T, Kappelhoff R, Fortelny N, Jobin P, Rozmus J, Mark J, Pavlidis P, Dive V, Barbour SJ, Overall CM. C-terminal truncation of IFN-γ inhibits proinflammatory macrophage responses and is deficient in autoimmune disease. Nat Commun. 2018 Jun;9(1):2416.

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  • Canadian spontaneous coronary artery dissection cohort study: in-hospital and 30-day outcomes

    Saw J, Starovoytov A, Humphries K, Sheth T, So D, et al.

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  • Sutherland: Centralized waiting lists

    July 22, 2019

    Breton M, Wong ST, Smithman MA, Kreindler S, Jbilou J, Sutherland J, Brousselle A, Shaw J, Crooks VA, Contandriopoulos D, Sasseville M, Green M. Centralized waiting lists for unattached patients in primary care: Learning from an intervention implemented in seven Canadian provinces. Healthc Pol. 2018 May;13(4):65-82.

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  • Change in albuminuria and subsequent risk of end-stage kidney disease: an individual participant-level consortium meta-analysis of observational studies

    Lancet Diabetes Endocrinol

    January 8, 2019

    Nephrology

    Coresh J, Heerspink HJL, Sang Y, Matsushita K, Ärnlöv J,… et al.;Chronic Kidney Disease Prognosis Consortium and Chronic Kidney Disease Epidemiology Collaboration (Levin A)

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  • Singer: CHIPS-Child

    July 22, 2019

    Magee LA, Synnes AR, Dadelszen von P, Hutfield AM, Chanoine J-P, Côté A-M, Devlin AM, Dorling J, Gafni A, Ganzevoort W, Helewa ME, Hutton EK, Koren G, Lee SK, Mcarthur D, Rey E, Robinson WP, Roseboom TJ, Singer J, Wilson S, Moutquin J-M; CHIPS-Child Study Group. CHIPS-Child: Testing the developmental programming hypothesis in the offspring of the CHIPS trial. Pregnancy Hypertens. 2018 Oct;14:15-22. Epub 2018 May 19.

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  • Karim: Time-dependent confounding

    July 22, 2019

    Karim ME, Petkau J, Gustafson P, Platt RW, Tremlett H, Grp BS. Comparison of statistical approaches dealing with time-dependent confounding in drug effectiveness studies. Stat Methods Med Res. 2018 Jun;27(6):1709-22.

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  • Coronary atheroma regression and adverse cardiac events: A systematic review and meta-regression analysis

    Atherosclerosis

    March 11, 2019

    Cardiology & Cardiovascular Disease

    Bhindi R, Guan M, Zhao Y, Humphries KH, Mancini GBJ

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  • Treatment with injectable hydromorphone: Comparing retention in double blind and open label treatment periods

    J Subst Abuse

    April 3, 2019

    Cascade of Care
    Substance Use & Addictions

    Oviedo-Joekes E, Palis H, Guh D, Marchand K, Brissette S, Harrison S, MacDonald S, Lock K, Anis AH, Marsh DC, Schechter MT

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  • Manipulating the 5 Dimensions of the EuroQol Instrument: The effects on self-reporting actual health and valuing hypothetical health states

    Tsuchiya A, Bansback N, Hole AR, Mulhern B

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  • Impaired Sleep Quality in COPD is Associated with Exacerbations: The CanCOLD cohort study

    Chest

    June 10, 2019

    Chronic Conditions
    Sleep & Health

    Shorofsky M, Bourbeau J, Kimoff J, Jen R, Malhotra A, Ayas NT,…et al.; Canadian Respiratory Research Network and the CanCOLD Collaborative Research group

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  • Congenital anomalies following antenatal exposure to dolutegravir: a Canadian surveillance study

    Money D, Lee T, O’Brien C, Brophy J, Bitnun A, Kakkar F, Boucoiran I, Alimenti A, Vaudry W, Singer J, Sauvé LJ; Canadian Perinatal HIV Surveillance Program

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  • The impact of pediatric emergency department crowding on patient and health care system outcomes: a multicentre cohort study

    Doan Q, Wong H, Meckler G, Johnson D, Stang A, Dixon A, Sawyer S, Principi T, Kam AJ, Joubert G, Gravel J, Jabbour M, Guttmann A; Pediatric Emergency Research Canada (PERC)

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