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Factors Affecting Pediatric Asthma in Rural Saskatchewan
(2012-09-20)Background: Previous research suggests that children living on farms have a lower prevalence of asthma compared to their more urban counterparts. Four potential explanations may underlie this association: personal factors, ... -
Factors Associated With Worsening Menopause-Specific Health-Related Quality of Life and Treatment Discontinuation in a Breast Cancer Chemoprevention Trial
(2015-09-10)Background: The Mammary Prevention.3 (MAP.3) randomized placebo-controlled trial evaluating exemestane for breast cancer prevention demonstrated a 65% relative reduction in invasive breast cancer incidence. Up to 50% of ... -
Family Structure as a Predictor of Organized Sports Participation and Sedentary Screen Time in Canadian Youth
(2014-09-15)Background: Canadian youth are increasingly likely to grow up in non-traditional families, such as single parent families, stepfamilies, and/or in the shared physical custody of their separated parents. Given that growing ... -
The food retail environment surrounding Canadian schools and its impact on overweight and obesity
(2007-10-01)Background: The prevalence of overweight and obesity in Canadian youth has increased considerably over the past few decades. In spite of considerable efforts, individual-level behavioural modification strategies have not ... -
Forecasting Hospital Emergency Department Visits for Respiratory Illness Using Ontario's Telehealth System: An Application of Real-Time Syndromic Surveillance to Forecasting Health Services Demand
(2009-08-12)Background: Respiratory illnesses can have a substantial impact on population health and burden hospitals in terms of patient load. Advance warnings of the spread of such illness could inform public health interventions ... -
Forensic psychiatry and criminal responsibility in Santiago, Chile
(2008-09-23)Mental disorders are among the most prevalent of chronic diseases, and high rates of these disorders have been consistently found in jails and prisons. This study was a retrospective case series that described the population ... -
Frequency of High Diagnostic Testing and its Association With the Specialist Interval in Ontario Symptomatic Breast Cancer Patients
Purpose: The breast cancer diagnostic process is complex. Patients can receive various tests including mammograms, ultrasounds, MRI scans and biopsies. A protracted time to diagnosis can affect a patient’s prognosis and ... -
From Clinical Trials to Clinical Practice: An International Survey of Oncologists on Health-Related Quality of Life Outcomes
(2013-10-02)Background: Health-related quality of life (HRQL) outcomes have been increasingly used in phase III randomized controlled trials to characterize the benefits or risks of a cancer treatment. HRQL outcomes from clinical ... -
Gender, Occupational Health and Safety Practices, and Injury Among Saskatchewan Farm Adolescents
(2010-09-20)Background: Farming is an hazardous occupation. The underlying determinants of farm injury are not well understood among adolescent populations, particularly from a gender lens. Objectives: (1) To evaluate the ... -
Genetic Polymorphisms in Replication-related Genes and Risk of Breast Cancer Among European and East Asian Women
Background: The role of common, low to intermediate risk alleles in breast cancer need to be examined due to their relatively high prevalence. Among many cellular pathways, replication has a pivotal role in cell division ... -
Genetic variation in vitamin D-related genes among European and East Asian women and risk of breast cancer and risk according to breast tumour subtypes
(2015-09-12)Vitamin D is hypothesized to decrease breast cancer risk by controlling cell proliferation, differentiation and apoptosis, and estrogen synthesis and signalling in breast tissue. Transport of circulating vitamin D to sites ... -
Hepatitis C antibody and RNA tests for adults in provincial and federal correctional facilities in Ontario, Canada: a population-based study
BACKGROUND: Prevalence of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) has been shown to be high in correctional facilities. Testing for HCV begins with a blood test for antibodies followed by an HCV ribonucleic acid (RNA) test to establish ... -
High Risk Environments and Agricultural Injuries in Children, Youth, and Young Adults
(2014-10-01)Background: Children who live on farms experience high rates of fatality, morbidity, and disability when compared to children from the general population. There is an existing body of research describing injury rates and ... -
Hormonal factors and insulin-like growth factor-1 in North American postmenopausal women
(2016-09-06)Background: Mechanisms underlying the effect of estrogen exposure on breast cancer risk remain unclear. Insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1) levels have been positively associated with breast cancer and are a potential ... -
Hospital post-cardiac arrest patient volume and key features of post-cardiac arrest care
(2014-10-14)Background: Hospitals vary in the number of out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) patients they treat on an annual basis. Institutional experience with this type of complex patient may be associated with the quality of ... -
Hunger in Canadian Adolescents: A Mixed Methods Study
(2015-10-20)Background: Children going to school or bed hungry due to lack of food at home is a public health concern in Canada. Hunger adversely affects child health and development. Social support can alleviate hunger among adults. ... -
Identifying Myocardial Infarction Patients Using Automated Text Mining in Family Practice Electronic Medical Recoreds: A Validation Study of Emerging Methods
(2015-12-16)Background: As Electronic Medical Records(EMRs) are being utilized increasingly in primary care physician’s offices, the potential exists to collect a vast amount of clinical information for research purposes. However, ... -
Identifying responders to melphalan and dexamethasone for newly diagnosed multiple myeloma patients
(2008-07-22)Background: MY7 clinical trial compared dexamethasone plus melphalan (MD) vs. prednisone plus melphalan (MP) in multiple myeloma treatment and found no statistically significant difference in overall survival (OS) between ... -
The impact of a co-morbid mental disability on the experience of labour force disparities among Canadians with physical disabilities: an examination of the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey (PALS)
(2011-02-01)Purpose: I examined two labour force disparities – unemployment and underemployment, among working-aged individuals (20-64 years) with self-reported disabilities using the 2006 Participation and Activity Limitation Survey ... -
The Impact of a Severe Psychiatric Illness on a Cancer Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survival
Background: Individuals with a severe psychiatric illness (SPI) are vulnerable to cancer care disparities. The contributions of cancer-related mortality to lower life-expectancy in individuals with an SPI have been ...