Background: Pharmacotherapy is a key component of comprehensive obesity management, alongside behavioural therapy and metabolic and bariatric surgery. In this guideline, we update the pharmacotherapy ...
Engineered stone used for countertops contains high concentrations of silica and carries a substantial risk of silicosis in ...
Periprosthetic joint infection complicates 1% to 2% of primary arthroplasties. Risk is highest soon after surgery, but infection can occur years later from hematogenous seeding. Acute periprosthetic ...
Typical presentations include chronic watery diarrhea, increased stool frequency, fecal urgency, and bloating. Although patients with bile acid diarrhea generally do not describe prominent abdominal ...
A 57-year-old woman presented to our dermatology clinic with a 20-day history of painful erythematous nodules on her lower limbs and polyarthralgia, predominantly affecting her knees and ankles. She ...
People experiencing homelessness (PEH) have high rates of cognitive and functional impairment that may be severe, with several causes compounding each other over time. Causes include undiagnosed fetal ...
Background: The prevalence of tuberculosis infection is critical to the design of tuberculosis prevention strategies, yet is unknown in Canada. We estimated the prevalence of tuberculosis infection ...
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Colorectal cancer is the second most common cause of cancer-related death in men and the third most common in women; 1 the lifetime probabilities of dying from colorectal cancer among men and women ...
Chronic spontaneous urticaria affects 1% to 3% of people It is not an allergy and carries no risk of anaphylaxis, but is a chronic type 2 inflammatory disease driven by autoimmune mast cell activation ...
Background: The post-acute burden of health care use after SARS-CoV-2 infection is unknown. We sought to quantify the post-acute burden of health care use after SARS-CoV-2 infection among ...
People with cannabis-induced psychosis and cannabis use disorder are at high risk of schizophrenia A population-based retrospective cohort study of 9.8 million people in Ontario, Canada, found that ...