A5082008558- Occupational and environmental lung diseases
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Ethics in Clinical Research
- Public Health Policies and Education
- Air Quality and Health Impacts
- Risk Perception and Management
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Environmental Justice and Health Disparities
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Ethics in medical practice
- Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging
- Occupational exposure and asthma
- Carcinogens and Genotoxicity Assessment
- Nutritional Studies and Diet
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Pharmaceutical industry and healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Interstitial Lung Diseases and Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Zoonotic diseases and public health
- Sustainable Development and Environmental Policy
- Vehicle emissions and performance
- HIV/AIDS Research and Interventions
- Biomedical Ethics and Regulation
- Gout, Hyperuricemia, Uric Acid
University of Alberta
2015-2024
Alberta Health Services
1987-2019
University of Canberra
2013-2019
Women and Children’s Health Research Institute
2018
Istituto Ramazzini
2016
Anatolia College
2016
American College
2016
Public Health Ontario
2015
University of Toronto
1984-2015
Cancer Care Ontario
1984-2015
Objective To determine whether surgical subspecialty training in colorectal surgery or frequency of rectal cancer resection by the surgeon are independent prognostic factors for local recurrence (LR) and survival. Summary Background Data Variation patient outcome has been shown among centers individual surgeons. However, importance surgeon-related is largely unknown. Methods All patients undergoing potentially curative low anterior abdominoperineal primary adenocarcinoma rectum between 1983...
We studied the reasons surgical principal investigators chose not to enter patients in a large, multicenter trial sponsored by cooperative group. In 1976 National Surgical Adjuvant Project for Breast and Bowel Cancers (NSABP) initiated clinical compare segmental mastectomy postoperative radiation, or alone, with total mastectomy. Because low rates of accrual were threatening close prematurely, we mailed questionnaire 94 NSABP investigators, asking why they entering eligible trial. A response...
OBJECTIVES : To identify determinants of mortality and institutionalization after hip fracture to those older patients at high risk death or fracture. DESIGN Population‐based prospective inception cohort study patients; were assessed in the hospital 3 months following SETTING Edmonton area admitted one two Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, acute care centers between July 10, 1996, August 31, 1997. PARTICIPANTS Patients residents over age 64. Those who had previously fractured same within past 5...
BackgroundAll forms of asbestos are now banned in 52 countries. Safer products have replaced many materials that once were made with it. Nonetheless, countries still use, import, and export asbestos-containing products, those other asbestos, the so-called “controlled use” chrysotile is often exempted from ban. In fact, has accounted for > 95% all used globally.ObjectiveWe examined evaluated literature to support exemption ban how its reflects political economic influence mining...
Journal Article LARYNGEAL CANCER AND OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE TO SULFURIC ACID Get access COLIN L. SOSKOLNE, SOSKOLNE 1Ontario Cancer Treatment and Research Foundation the University of TorontoCanada Send reprint requests to Dr. Colin Sakolne, Ontario Foundation, Epidemiology Unit, Department Preventive Medicine Biostatistice, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, M5S 1A8 Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar ELAINE A. ZEIGHAMI, ZEIGHAMI 2Oak Ridge National...
Abstract An under-recognised aspect of the current humanitarian catastrophe in Gaza is impact war on environment and associated risks for human health. This commentary contextualises these impacts against background suffering produced by overwhelming violence with use military force general population Gaza. In calling an immediate cessation to violence, authors draw attention urgent need rebuild health care system restore physical infrastructure that makes a liveable possible promotes...
As part of a prospective study in Toronto, Canada male sexual contacts men with either acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or an AIDS-related condition (primary cases), separate interviews were conducted 1984-1985 primary cases and their corresponding contacts. Seventy-five asked details concerning the activities involved encounters. Spearman correlation coefficients calculated for responses regarding frequency various between case his contact. Comparison revealed good to excellent...
With 5.9 billion reported users, mobile phones constitute a new, ubiquitous and rapidly growing exposure worldwide. Mobile are two-way microwave radios that also emit low levels of electromagnetic radiation. Inconsistent results have been published on potential risks brain tumors tied with phone use as result important methodological differences in study design statistical power. Some studies examined users for periods time too short to detect an increased risk cancer, while others...
Cree M, Carriere KC, Soskolne CL, Suarez-Almazor M: Functional dependence after hip fracture. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2001;80:736–743. Objectives: To identify patients at high risk of functional and examine the progression disability a Design: This was population-based prospective inception cohort study all aged 65+ yr who fractured between July 1996 August 1997. Demographic, socioeconomic, social support, health status information assessed in hospital 3 mo postfracture. Results: The analysis...
A total of 246 healthy male sexual contacts men with either acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) or an AIDS-related condition were recruited into a prospective study in Toronto, Canada between July 1984 and 1985. At induction, data collected on the relationship contact his primary case, activities other men, history sexually transmitted diseases diseases, use recreational drugs. recruitment, 144 had antibodies to human virus (HIV); 102 seronegative at induction three months following...
A case-referent study, designed to test associations between asbestos, nickel, and the development of laryngeal cancer, was conducted in southern Ontario 1977-1979. The cases were individually matched neighborhood referents for gender age. This constituted primary study. Personal interviews had secured tobacco, alcohol, detailed work histories. To 183 male pairs added retrospective assessments sulfuric acid exposure each job, blind disease status; this data base an augmented secondary...
To improve our understanding of physician reluctance to participate in randomized clinical trials, we examined responses the regulation obtaining written informed consent. Between June 1984 and February 1985 a purposive sample 170 breast cancer specialists from eight countries completed self-administered questionnaire follow-up interview. The included 90 medical oncologists, 65 surgeons, 29 radiotherapists. Responses individual questions are presented three global categories: (1)...
The silicate mineral asbestos is categorized into two main groups based on fiber structure: serpentine (chrysotile) and amphibole (crocidolite, amosite, anthophyllite, tremolite, actinolite). Chrysotile used in more than 2 000 applications especially prevalent the construction industry. Although its use banned or restricted 52 countries, an estimated 107 workers die from exposure each year, approximately 125 million continue to be exposed. Furthermore, ambient exposures persist which public...
Abstract Objective: For proper interpretation of results from epidemiological studies that use food-frequency questionnaires (FFQs), it is necessary to know the relationship between reported intakes FFQ and true usual intake. In this paper, we report a calibration study conducted investigate performance used in cohort study, Canadian Study Diet, Lifestyle Health. Methods: Over 1-year period, 151 men 159 women completed full set including self-administered baseline FFQ, three 24-hour diet...