Background: The prevalence of childhood obesity is increasing at an alarming rate. Many
local governments have enacted policies to increase physical activity in schools as a way to …

Objectives : The goal of this study was to determine the relative prognostic importance of
noninvasive measures of endothelial function and atheroma burden in patients with coronary …

Objective: To investigate in vivo the impact of age on nigrostriatal dopamine dysfunction in
Parkinson's disease (PD). Methods: PD patients (n = 78) and healthy control subjects (n = 35) …

Parkinson's disease is a relentlessly progressive neurodegenerative disease. Breakdown of
compensatory mechanisms influencing putaminal dopamine processing could contribute to …

Neurofibromatosis 2 (NF2) is an autosomal dominant disease that is characterized by tumors
on the vestibular branch of the VIII cranial nerve, but other types of nervous system tumors …

STUDY OBJECTIVE: Our objectives are to describe the outcomes of patients presenting to
the emergency department (ED) because of an adverse drug event and to compare them with …

Context/Objective The risk for cardiovascular disease is amplified following spinal cord
injury, but whether risk differs between the sexes remains unknown. Here, we evaluated sex …

Background. Asthma tends to be less well controlled among ethnic minority groups, and its
prevalence in new immigrants increases significantly the longer they are in Canada; mainly …

BACKGROUND: The appropriate timing of hip fracture surgery remains a matter of debate.
We sought to estimate the effect of changes in timing policy and the proportion of deaths …

Background Adverse drug events are a frequent cause of emergency department presentations.
Administrative data could be used to identify patients presenting with adverse drug …