Department of Medicine Publications
As the largest department within the Schulich School of Medicine and Dentistry, the Department of Medicine hosts a vast range of research in its divisions. Research areas include cardiology, clinical immunology and allergy, clinical pharmacology, dermatology, critical care and emergency medicine, endocrinology and metabolism, gastroenterology, hematology, molecular toxicology, nephrology, respirology, and rheumatology.
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Submissions from 2011
Inadequate Reporting of Research Ethics Review and Informed Consent in Cluster Randomised Trials: Review of Random Sample of Published Trials, Monica Taljaard, Andrew D. McRae, Charles Weijer, Carol Bennett, Stephanie Dixon, Julia Taleban, Zoe Skea, Martin P Eccles, Jamie C. Brehaut, Allan Donner, Raphael Saginur, Robert F. Boruch, and Jeremy M. Grimshaw
An introduction to immunology and immunopathology, Richard Warrington, Wade Watson, Harold L. Kim, and Francesca R. Antonetti
Ethical Issues Posed by Cluster Randomized Trials in Health Research, Charles Weijer, Jeremy M. Grimshaw, Monica Taljaard, Ariella Binik, Robert Boruch, Jamie C. Brehaut, Allan Donner, Martin P. Eccles, Antonio Gallo, Andrew D. McRae, Raphael Saginur, and Merrick Zwarenstein
Submissions from 2010
Fall Prevention and Vitamin D in the Elderly: An Overview of the Key Role of the Non-bone Effects, Cedric Annweiler, Manuel Montero-Odasso, Anne M. Schott, Gilles Berrut, Bruno Fantino, and Olivier Beauchet
Polyploidy Impairs Human Aortic Endothelial Cell Function and Is Prevented by Nicotinamide Phosphoribosyltransferase, Nica M. Borradaile and J. Geoffrey Pickering
Drive time to Cardiac Rehabilitation: At What Point Does It Affect Utilization?, Janette Brual, Shannon Gravely-Witte, Neville Suskin, Donna E. Stewart, Alison Macpherson, and Sherry L. Grace
Physiologic tailoring of treatment in resistant hypertension, J. David Spence
To Report or Not to Report: A Descriptive Study Exploring ICU Nurses' Perceptions of Error and Error Reporting, Sherry Espin, Abigail Wickson-Griffiths, Michelle Wilson, and Lorelei Lingard
Skin Prick Testing in Patients Using Beta-blockers: A Retrospective Analysis, Irene N. Fung and Harold L. Kim
A Medical Student's Perspective of Participation in an Interprofessional Education Placement: An Autoethnography, Jennifer Gallé and Lorelei Lingard
Credentials as Cultural Capital: The Pursuit of Higher Degrees among Academic Medical Trainees, Orlee R. Guttman and Lorelei Lingard
B vitamins in patients with recent transient ischaemic attack or stroke in the VITAmins to prevent stroke (VITATOPS) trial: A randomised, double-blind, parallel, placebo-controlled trial, G. J. Hankey, J. W. Eikelboom, R. I. Baker, A. Gelavis, S. C. Hickling, K. Jamrozik, F. M. van Bockxmeer, S. Vasikaran, C. Chen, K. R. Lees, Q. Yi, Q. Yi, A. Algra, M. C. Wong, R. Cheung, L. Wong, I. Divjak, J. Ferro, G. de Freitas, J. Gommans, S. Groppa, M. Hill, J. D. Spence, L. Lisheng, J. Navarro, U. Ranawaka, S. Ricci, R. Schmidt, and A. Slivka
Genome-Wide Association Studies of Plasma Lipids: Have We Reached the Limit?, Robert A. Hegele
Advances in Stroke 2009: Update on the Genetics of Stroke and Cerebrovascular Disease 2009, Robert A. Hegele and Martin Dichgans
Canadian Global Village Reality: Anthropometric Surrogate Cutoffs and Metabolic Abnormalities among Canadians of East Asian, South Asian, and European Descent, Meizi He, E. T. S. Li, Stewart Harris, Murray W. Huff, Chun Y. Yau, and G. Harvey Anderson
Kidney and Liver Transplants from Donors after Cardiac Death: Initial Experience at the London Health Sciences Centre, Roberto Hernandez-Alejandro, Yves Caumartin, Cameron Chent, Mark A. Levstik, Douglas Quan, Norman Muirhead, Andrew A. House, Vivian McAlister, Anthony M. Jevnikar, Patrick P. W. Luke, and William Wall
Increased Blood Pressure and Hyperdynamic Cardiovascular Responses in Carriers of a Common Hyperfunctional Variant of Adenylyl Cyclase 6, Gary J. Hodges, Robert Gros, Robert A. Hegele, Stan Van Uum, J. Kevin Shoemaker, and Ross D. Feldman
Effect of B-Vitamin Therapy on Progression of Diabetic Nephropathy: A Randomized Controlled Trial, Andrew A. House, Misha Eliasziw, Daniel C. Cattran, David N. Churchill, Matthew J. Oliver, Adrian Fine, George K. Dresser, and J. David Spence
A New Way of Relating: Perceptions Associated with a Team-based Error Disclosure Simulation Intervention, Lianne Jeffs, Sherry Espin, Sarah E. Shannon, Wendy Levinson, Melanie Kazman Kohn, and Lorelei Lingard
Omalizumab: Practical Considerations Regarding the Risk of Anaphylaxis, Harold L. Kim, Richard Leigh, and Allan Becker
APOC1 T45S Polymorphism Is Associated with Reduced Obesity Indices and Lower Plasma Concentrations of Leptin and Apolipoprotein C-I in Aboriginal Canadians, Piya Lahiry, Henian Cao, Matthew R. Ban, Rebecca L. Pollex, Mary Mamakeesick, Bernard Zinman, Stewart B. Harris, Anthony J. G. Hanley, Murray W. Huff, Philip W. Connelly, and Robert A. Hegele
Comprehensive Analysis of Genomic Variation in the LPA Locus and Its Relationship to Plasma Lipoprotein(a) in South Asians, Chinese, and European Caucasians, Matthew B. Lanktree, Sonia S. Anand, Salim Yusuf, Robert A. Hegele, and SHARE Investigators
Phenomics: Expanding the Role of Clinical Evaluation in Genomic Studies, Matthew B. Lanktree, Reina G. Hassell, Piya Lahiry, and Robert A. Hegele
Extremes of Unexplained Variation as a Phenotype: An Efficient Approach for Genome-Wide Association Studies of Cardiovascular Disease, Matthew B. Lanktree, Robert A. Hegele, Nicholas J. Schork, and J. David Spence
Genetic Variation in Hyaluronan Metabolism Loci Is Associated with Plasma Plasminogen Activator Inhibitor-1 Concentration, Matthew B. Lanktree, Christopher T. Johansen, Sonia S. Anand, A. Darlene Davis, Ruby Miller, Salim Yusuf, Robert A. Hegele, SHARE, and SHARE-AP Investigators