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The association between usual health care utilization and stage at diagnosis in laryngeal cancer
(2012-04-26)
Background: A significant number of laryngeal cancer patients are diagnosed with advanced-stage disease. Since stage at diagnosis is an important prognostic factor, it is necessary to understand the characteristics of ...
Recreational use of prescription medications among Canadian young people: Identifying demographic and geographic disparities
(2013-10-02)
BACKGROUND: The nonmedical use of prescription medications among young people has escalated substantially in recent years. Certain subgroups of adolescents are at greater risk than others, including rural youth, however ...
Cardiorespiratory Fitness Versus Physical Activity as Predictors of All-Cause Mortality in Men
BACKGROUND: Physical activity (PA) is a behaviour, defined as any bodily movement that increases energy expenditure above resting levels, while cardiorespiratory fitness (CRF) is a physiologic trait that reflects the ability ...
Bi-directional Association between Sleep and Outdoor Active Play among 10- to 13-year-olds
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate whether there is a bi-directional relationship between sleep characteristics (time in bed, sleep duration, sleep efficiency) and outdoor active play (OAP) within children. ...
Clinical validation of the Walking Impairment Questionnaire in patients with peripheral arterial disease: defining high and low walking performance values
(2011-08-25)
Objective: The validity of the Walking Impairment Questionnaire (WIQ) as a clinical tool for use by clinicians in the conservative management of patients with peripheral arterial disease (PAD) has not been well established. ...
Modelling Pathogen Evolution with Branching Processes
(2010-07-28)
Pathogen evolution poses a significant challenge to public health, as efforts to control the spread of infectious diseases struggle to keep up with a shifting target. To better understand this adaptive process, we turn ...
The Compositional Effects of Time Spent in Sleep, Sedentary Behaviour and Physical Activity on Obesity in Children
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Physical activity, sedentary behaviour (SB) and sleep have traditionally been studied as independent behaviours and not as co-dependent behaviours that are compositional in nature. This study used ...
Solar ultraviolet radiation and colorectal cancer risk in Canada
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is the third most common cancer in Canada with an estimated 26,000 new cases in 2020. Novel modifiable risk factors such as solar ultraviolet radiation (UVR) warrant research to promote ...
The Relationship Between Different Patterns of Weekly Physical Activity Accumulation and the Metabolic Syndrome in Canadian Adults
(2013-07-12)
Total weekly moderate-to-vigorous (MVPA) accumulated in different patterns has not been well studied: it is not yet known whether sporadic MVPA (periods of <10 consecutive minutes) or whether the weekly frequency of MVPA ...
A Population-Based Study of Healthcare Resource Utilization by Metastatic Gastric Cancer Patients in Ontario
(2012-09-11)
Background: Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the world. Non-curative, metastatic disease is frequent in low incidence countries; management strategies for relief of symptoms include surgery, chemotherapy ...