Primary care clinicians should initiate patient-centred conversations with their patients about overweight or obesity. The 5As of Obesity ManagementTM (Ask-Assess-Advise-Agree-Assist) approach, starting with asking permission to discuss weight, is an appropriate format to use.
Primary care clinicians sho...
This guideline reviews the clinical evaluation and management of gestational trophoblastic diseases, including surgical and medical management of benign, premalignant, and malignant entities. The objective of this guideline is to assist health care providers in promptly diagnosing gestational trophoblast...
Asking patients about their performance in daily activities including personal care, mobility and interactions with the built and social environment will provide valuable information about facilitators and barriers to engagement in daily activities, including treatment recommendations. This can help heal...
Regular physical activity induces a wide range of health benefits in adults across all BMI categories, even in the absence of weight loss.
Aerobic and resistance exercise can favour the maintenance or improvements in cardiorespiratory fitness, mobility, strength and muscle mass during weight management...
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Sharma, Arya M;
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Adamo, Kristi;
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Forhan, Mary;
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Gagner, Michel;
Glazer, Stephen;
Grand, Cindy;
Green, Michael;
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Hawa, Raed;
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Hung, Pam;
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Jacklin, Kristen;
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Kemp, Amy;
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Ramos Salas, Ximena;
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Obesity is a complex chronic disease in which abnormal or excess body fat (adiposity) impairs health, increases the risk of long-term medical complications and reduces lifespan.1 Epidemiologic studies define obesity using the body mass index (BMI; weight/height2), which can stratify obesity-related healt...
To outline the evidence for conservative care, including both assessment and management options, for urinary incontinence in women.Relevant primary care providers and medical specialists including but not limited to physicians, nurses, midwives, and pelvic health physiotherapists. Women (>18 years of age...
The purpose of this guidance document is to inform physicians and
other health care practitioners of an increased risk of influenza
outbreaks in long-term care facilities (LTCF) during the 2014-2015
influenza season in Canada, and to provide recommendations for
adjustment to LTCF outbreak control measure...
"OBJECTIVE:
To revise diagnostic strategies for Alzheimer disease (AD), update recommendations on symptomatic treatment of dementia, and provide an approach to rapidly progressive and early-onset dementias.
COMPOSITION OF THE COMMITTEE:
Experts and delegates representing relevant disciplines from divers...
