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  • Patterns and determinants of adherence to colorectal cancer primary and secondary prevention recommendations in the BC Generations Project

    Heal Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can

    February 1, 2022

    Evaluation
    Oncology
    Screening & Testing

    Sweeney-Magee M, Gotay C, Karim ME, Telford J, Dummer T

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  • Impact of Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Current Treatments on the Development and Progression of Type 2 Diabetes

    Curr Diabetes Rev

    February 16, 2022

    Data Linkage
    Diabetes
    Epidemiology
    Sleep & Health

    Faria A, Laher I, Fasipe B, Ayas NT

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  • Barriers to treatment for mental disorders in six countries of the Americas: A regional report from the World Mental Health Surveys

    Orozco R, Vigo D, Benjet C, Borges G, Aguilar-Gaxiola S, Andrade LH, Cia A, Hwang I, Kessler RC, Piazza M, Posada-Villa J, Rafful C, Sampson N, Stagnaro JC, Torres Y, Viana MC, Medina-Mora ME

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  • Analysis approaches to address treatment nonadherence in pragmatic trials with point-treatment settings: a simulation study

    BMC Med Res Methodol

    February 16, 2022

    Clinical Trials
    Statistics & Methodology

    Hossain MB, Mosquera L, Karim ME

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  • Staff experience of a Canadian long-term care home during a COVID-19 outbreak: a qualitative study

    BMC Nurs

    February 21, 2022

    COVID-19
    Long-term Care

    Hung L, Yang SC, Guo E, Sakamoto M, Mann J, Dunn S, Horne N

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  • Association of mammographic density and benign breast calcifications individually or combined with hypertension, diabetes, and hypercholesterolemia in women ≥40 years of age: a retrospective study

    Al-Mohaissen M, Alkhedeiri A, Al-Madani O, Lee T, Hamdoun A, Al-Harbi M

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  • A systematic review of the impacts of oral tetracycline class antibiotics on antimicrobial resistance in normal human flora

    JAC Antimicrob Resist

    February 15, 2022

    Drugs & Pharmaceuticals
    Infectious Disease & STBBIs

    Truong R, Tang V, Grennan T, Tan DHS

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  • Association of Clonal Hematopoiesis of Indeterminate Potential with Worse Kidney Function and Anemia in Two Cohorts of Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease

    J Am Soc Nephrol

    February 23, 2022

    Nephrology

    Vlasschaert C, McNaughton A, Chong M, Cook E, Hopman W, Kestenbaum B, Robinson-Cohen C, Garland J, Moran S, Paré G, Clase C, Tang M, Levin A, Holden R, Rauh M, Lanktree M

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  • Sex Differences in Diaphragm Voluntary Activation after Exercise

    Med Sci Sports Exerc

    February 21, 2022

    Exercise Science & Physical Activity
    Sex & Gender

    Ramsook AH, Schaeffer MR, Mitchell RA, Dhillon SS, Milne KM, Ferguson ON, Puyat JH, Koehle MS, Sheel AW, Guenette JA

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  • Reproductive Health Experiences of Females Diagnosed with Young-Onset Colorectal Cancer: A Multi-Method Cross-Sectional Survey

    Curr Oncol

    January 21, 2022

    Oncology
    Reproductive & Maternal Health

    Araujo L, Rebic N, Dau H, Brotto L, George M, De Vera MA

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  • Clinical Care Pathway for Suspected Vaccine-Induced Immune Thrombotic Thrombocytopenia After ChAdOx1 nCoV-19 vaccination

    Blood Adv

    February 24, 2022

    COVID-19
    Modelling & Risk Prediction
    Vaccines

    Lee AY, Moosawi MA, Peterson EA, McCracken RK, Wong SK, Nicolson H, Chan V, Smith TW, Wong MP, Lee LJ, Griffiths C, Rehal B, Parkin S, Afra K, Ambler K, Chen LY, Field TS, Lindsay HC, Lavoie M, Li C, Migneault D, Naus M, Piszczek J, Rahmani P, Sreenivasan G, Wan T, Yee A, Zypchen L, Sweet D

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  • Adverse changes in key chronic kidney disease care outcome metrics since onset of the COVID-19 pandemic; experience from an established provincial renal program

    Kidney Int

    February 21, 2022

    COVID-19
    Editorial
    Nephrology

    Bevilacqua M, Induruwage D, Williams J, Djurdjev O, Levin A

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