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  • Effect of Canagliflozin on Total Cardiovascular Burden in Patients With Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: A Post Hoc Analysis From the CREDENCE Trial

    Li J, Arnott C, Heerspink HJL, Li Q, Cannon CP, Wheeler DC, Charytan DM, Barraclough J, Figtree GA, Agarwal R, Bakris G, de Zeeuw D, Greene T, Levin A, Pollock C, Zhang H, Zinman B, Mahaffey KW, Perkovic V, Neal B, Jardine MJ

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  • Self-compassion and its barriers: predicting outcomes from inpatient and residential eating disorders treatment

    Geller J, Samson L, Maiolino N, Iyar MM, Kelly AC, Srikameswaran S

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  • Sensor technologies to detect out-of-hospital cardiac arrest: A systematic review of diagnostic test performance

    Hutton J, Lingawi S, Puyat JH, Kuo C, Shadgan B, Christenson J, Grunau B

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  • Mental Health Inequities Amid the COVID-19 Pandemic: Findings From Three Rounds of a Cross-Sectional Monitoring Survey of Canadian Adults

    Int J Public Health

    July 21, 2022

    COVID-19
    Mental Health & Wellbeing
    Public Health

    Jenkins EK, Slemon A, Richardson C, Pumarino J, McAuliffe C, Thomson KC, Goodyear T, Daly Z, McGuinness L, Gadermann A

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  • Sensitivity of the Elecsys Nucleocapsid Assay for the Detection of Preceding SARS-CoV-2 Infections

    Open Forum Infect Dis

    July 26, 2022

    COVID-19
    Screening & Testing
    Vaccines

    Grunau B, Tom J, Asamoah-Boaheng M, O’Brien SF, Drews SJ, Sediqi S, Lavoie PM, Barakauskas V, Goldfarb DM

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  • The independent associations of physical activity and sleep with neural activity during an inhibitory task: cross-sectional results from the MONITOR-OA study

    Falck RS, Hsu CL, Silva NCBS, Li LC, Best JR, Liu-Ambrose T

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  • A randomized control trial of high-dose micronutrient-antioxidant supplementation in healthy persons with untreated HIV infection

    PLoS One

    July 14, 2022

    Infectious Disease & STBBIs

    Wobeser WL, McBane JE, Balfour L, Conway B, Gill MJ, Huff H, Kilby DLP, Fergusson DA, Mallick R, Mills EJ, Muldoon KA, Rachlis A, Ralph ED, Rosenes R, Singer J, Singhal N, Tan D, Tremblay N, Vo D, Walmsley SL, Cameron DW; for the MAINTAIN Study Group

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  • Cango Lyec (Healing the Elephant): Probable post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression in Northern Uganda five years after a violent conflict

    Luo J, Zamar DS, Ogwang MD, Muyinda H, Malamba SS, Katamba A, Jongbloed K, Schechter MT, Sewankambo NK, Spittal PM

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  • Current Recommendations for Perioperative Brain Health: A Scoping Review

    J Neurosurg Anesthesiol

    July 14, 2022

    Anaesthesiology
    Neurology
    Surgery & Procedures

    Wooding DJ, Field TS, Schwarz SKW, MacDonell SY, Farmer J, Rajan S, Flexman AM

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  • “I feel like it is asking if he is a stalker … but I also feel like it is asking if he cares”: exploring young South African women and men’s perceptions of the Sexual Relationship Power Scale

    BMC Public Health

    July 16, 2022

    Measurement
    Sex & Gender

    Closson K, Zharima C, Kuchena M, Dietrich JJ, Gadermann A, Ogilvie G, Beksinska M, Kaida A

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  • Canadian Rheumatology Association living guidelines for the pharmacological management of rheumatoid arthritis with disease-modifying anti-rheumatic drugs

    Hazlewood GS, Pardo JP, Barnabe C, Schieir O, Barber CEH, Proulx L, Richards DP, Tugwell P, Bansback N, Akhavan P, Bombardier C, Bykerk V, Jamal S, Khraishi M, Taylor-Gjevre R, Thorne C, Agarwal A, Pope JE

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  • Hypertension in stroke survivors and associations with national premature stroke mortality: data for 2·5 million participants from multinational screening campaigns

    Lin Q, Ye T, Ye P, Borghi C, Cro S, Damasceno A, Khan N, Nilsson PM, Prabhakaran D, Ramirez A, Schlaich MP, Schutte AE, Stergiou G, Weber MA, Beaney T, Poulter NR

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