Make a tour of the average general adult orthopedic ward, and a large number of the beds
will be taken by patients with fractured hips. This is an important problem because it requires …

… with the experiences of black people and the Indigenous people of North America. It was on
these two groups that the initial colonisers of North America (the English, French, Dutch, and …

Increasing social inequalities in health in the United States and elsewhere, coupled with
growing inequalities in income and wealth, have refocused attention on social class as a key …

The risk of cancer associated with a broad range of organ doses was estimated in an
international study of women with cervical cancer. Among 150,000 patients reported to one of 19 …

… Cotterchio and N. Kreiger are affiliated with the Department of Public Health Sciences, University
of … It should help improve the phytoestrogen dietary assessment particularly in the North …

The Canadian Multicentre Osteoporosis Study (CaMos) is a prospective cohort study which
will measure the incidence and prevalence of osteoporosis and fractures, and the effect of …

Background: Although mass screening for osteoporosis is not recommended among
postmenopausal women, there is no consensus on which women should undergo testing for low …

Background The Ontario Cancer Registry (OCR) is a population-based registry covering the
entire province of Ontario. Ontario is the most populous province in Canada, with 9.1 million …

… study is the first to report on the validation of the most recent full-diet Block FFQ in common
use, Block98, and compares intakes from the FFQ with shortterm dietary recall data in a North …

… When using nearest neighbor (NN) thresholds, cases are close in space if the locations of
one (or both) was nearer than the other’snth NN, where n was chosen such that the mean of …