ACHORD disseminates a variety of information through peer-reviewed publications and presentations at scientific meetings.

2019

• Clinical Utility of Pre-Exercises Stress Testing in People with Diabetes.
• Healthy Eating and Active Living for Diabetes-Glycemic Index (HEALD-GI): study rationale, design and evaluation of a pragmatic randomized controlled trial. 
• An individualized patient-reported outcome measure (PROM) based patient decision aid and surgeon report for patients considering total knee arthroplasty: protocol for a pragmatic randomized controlled trial.
• The Effect of Cardiac Rehabilitation Attendance on Sexual Activity Outcomes in Cardiovascular Disease Patients: A Systematic Review. 
• Prognostic tools for cardiovascular disease in patients with type 2 diabetes: A systematic review and meta-analysis of C-statistics. 
•  The History of Hypertension Guidelines in Canada.
• Population-Level Outcomes With a 2-Step Approach for Gestational Diabetes Screening and Diagnosis: Response to the Letter to the Editor from Dr. Kong. 
• Individualized Health-Related Quality of Life Instrument Measure Yourself Medical Outcome Profile (MYMOP) and Its Adaptations: A Critical Appraisal. 
• Developing a case definition for type 1 diabetes mellitus in a primary care electronic medical record database: an exploratory study. 
• Adherence to biphosphonates after an upper extremity fracture: A pre-specified substudy of the C-Stop randomized controlled trial. 
• The association between vascular complications during pregnancy in women with Type 1 diabetes and congenital malformations.
• Understanding the Experiences of East African Immigrant Women with Gestational Diabetes Mellitus. 
• The frequency and availability of population-specific patient reported outcome measures and minimal clinically important differences among approved drugs in Canada. 
• Systematic review of community pharmacy-based and pharmacist-led foot care interventions for adults with type 2 diabetes.
• Discriminative Validity of the EQ-5D-5L and SF-12 in Older Adults with Arthritis.

2016

• Income-related inequalities in visual impairment and eye screening services in patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Sex differences in associations between insulin resistance, heart rate variability, and arterial stiffness in healthy women and men: a physiology study.
• Dietary intake and prospective changes in cardiometabolic risk factors in children and youth.
• Prevalence of gestational diabetes among Chinese and South Asians: A Canadian population-based analysis.
• Time-Varying Risk for Breast Cancer Following Initiation of Glucose-Lowering Therapy in Women with Type 2 Diabetes: Exploring Detection Bias.
• Walking and type 2 diabetes risk using CANRISK scores among older adults.
• Geographic Clustering of Acute Complications and Sociodemographic Factors in Adults with Type 1 Diabetes.
• Engaging Patients and Clinicians in Establishing Research Priorities for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
• Association of insulin dosage with mortality or major adverse cardiovascular events: a retrospective cohort study.
• Hospital rehabilitation for patients with obesity: a scoping review.
• Longer Duration of Diabetes Strongly Impacts Fracture Risk Assessment: The Manitoba BMD Cohort.
• Examining Diet-Related Care Practices Among Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: A Focus on Glycemic Index Choices.
• Intensive lowering of blood pressure: Should we SPRINT?
• The association between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and poor glycaemic control: a longitudinal cohort study.
• Validation of administrative and clinical case definitions for gestational diabetes mellitus against laboratory results.
• Association between Physical Activity and Health-Related Quality of Life in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Sitagliptin and risk of fractures in type 2 diabetes: Results from the TECOS trial.
• Environmental Risk Factors and Type 1 Diabetes: Past, Present, and Future.
• Systematic review of validated case definitions for diabetes in ICD-9-coded and ICD-10-coded data in adult populations.
• A qualitative study examining healthcare managers and providers’ perspectives on participating in primary care implementation research.
• The temporal relationship between diabetes and cancer: A population-based study.
• Factors Affecting Number of Diabetes Management Activities Provided by Pharmacists.
• Comparative effectiveness of incretin-based therapies and the risk of death and cardiovascular events in 38,233 metformin monotherapy users.
• Telemonitoring and Protocolized Case Management for Hypertensive Community-Dwelling Seniors With Diabetes: Protocol of the TECHNOMED Randomized Controlled Trial.
• Treated glycosylated hemoglobin levels in individuals with diabetes mellitus vary little by health status: A retrospective cohort study.
• Medication Adherence Affects Risk of New Diabetes Complications: A Cohort Study.
• Severe Obesity Is Associated With Increased Risk of Early Complications and Extended Length of Stay Following Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting Surgery.
• Comparative effectiveness and safety of gastric bypass, sleeve gastrectomy and adjustable gastric banding in a population-based bariatric program: prospective cohort study.
• Hypertension Canada’s 2016 Canadian Hypertension Education Program Guidelines for Blood Pressure Measurement, Diagnosis, and Assessment of Risk of Pediatric Hypertension.
• Direct comparison of FRAX(R) and a simplified fracture risk assessment tool in routine clinical practice: a registry-based cohort study.
• Dose-response relationship between sulfonylureas and major adverse cardiovascular events in elderly patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Comparability of two commonly used automated office blood pressure devices in the severely obese.
• Antiresorptive therapy and newly diagnosed diabetes in women: a historical cohort study.
• The relationship of diabetes-related distress and depressive symptoms with physical activity and dietary behaviors in adults with type 2 diabetes: A cross-sectional study.
• Association between subjective social status and cardiovascular disease and cardiovascular risk factors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Dietary Patterns in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes Predict Cardiometabolic Risk Factors.
• Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of Collaborative Care for Diabetes and Depression in Primary Care.
• Does Sitagliptin Affect the Rate of Osteoporotic Fractures in Type 2 Diabetes? Population-Based Cohort Study.
• Testing social-cognitive mediators for objective estimates of physical activity from the Healthy Eating and Active Living for Diabetes in Primary Care Networks (HEALD-PCN) study.
• Antihypertensive treatments for adults with type 2 diabetes.

2015

• The association between sociodemographic and clinical characteristics and poor glycaemic control: a longitudinal cohort study.
• How much will we pay to increase steps per day? Examining the cost-effectiveness of a pedometer-based lifestyle program in primary care.
• Current depressive symptoms but not history of depression predict hospital readmission or death after discharge from medical wards: a multisite prospective cohort study.
• Income-related inequalities in visual impairment and eye screening services in patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Health Literacy, Pedometer, and Self-Reported Walking Among Older Adults.
• Associations of Body Mass Index With Incident Fractures and Hip Structural Parameters in a Large Canadian Cohort.
• (1)H-NMR urinary metabolomic profiling for diagnosis of gastric cancer.
• Osteoarthritis prevalence and modifiable factors: a population study.
• Health literacy and health-related quality of life in adults with type 2 diabetes: a longitudinal study.
• Validation of administrative data case definitions for gestational diabetes mellitus.
• Prevalence and Timing of Screening and Diagnostic Testing for Gestational Diabetes Mellitus: A Population-Based Study in Alberta, Canada.
• Perceived Barriers to and Facilitators of Patient-to-Provider E-Mail in the Management of Diabetes Care.
• Sulfonylurea use is associated with larger infarct size in patients with diabetes and ST-elevation myocardial infarction.
• Alternation as a form of allocation for quality improvement studies in primary healthcare settings: the on-off study design.
• Temporal variation of diabetic ketoacidosis and hypoglycemia in adults with type 1 diabetes: A nationwide cohort study.
• A Comparison of Casual In-Clinic Blood Pressure Measurements to Standardized Guideline-Concordant Measurements in Severely Obese Individuals.
• The Comparative Effectiveness of Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors and Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers in Patients With Diabetes.
• Contextualizing the Proven Effectiveness of a Lifestyle Intervention for Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care: A Qualitative Assessment Based on the RE-AIM Framework.
• Diabetic Foot Disease, Self-Care and Clinical Monitoring in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes: The Alberta’s Caring for Diabetes (ABCD) Cohort Study.
• The Alberta’s Caring for Diabetes (ABCD) Study: Rationale, Design and Baseline Characteristics of a Prospective Cohort of Adults with Type 2 Diabetes.
• Contextualizing the Effectiveness of a Collaborative Care Model for Primary Care Patients with Diabetes and Depression (Teamcare): A Qualitative Assessment Using RE-AIM.
• How dead is dead? Qualitative findings from participants of combined traditional and lead-time time trade-off valuations.
• Risk of new-onset heart failure in patients using sitagliptin: a population-based cohort study.
• Challenges in Identifying Patients with Type 2 Diabetes for Quality-Improvement Interventions in Primary Care Settings and the Importance of Valid Disease Registries.
• Impact of Organizational Stability on Adoption of Quality-Improvement Interventions for Diabetes in Primary Care Settings.
• How Do You Know Which Health Care Effectiveness Research You Can Trust? A Guide to Study Design for the Perplexed.
• Ten-Year Mortality after Community-acquired Pneumonia. A Prospective Cohort.
• Characteristics and health behaviors of diabetic patients receiving influenza vaccination.
• Socioeconomic factors associated with visual impairment and ophthalmic care utilization in patients with type II diabetes.
• Associations between health literacy and health outcomes in a predominantly low-income african american population with type 2 diabetes.
• Association of Inadequate Health Literacy with Health Outcomes in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes and Depression: Secondary Analysis of a Controlled Trial.
• Effect of an experiential exercise in diabetes management on pharmacy students’ fear and perceived pain of injection and fingertip lancing.
• Effect of oral vitamin D analogs on mortality and cardiovascular outcomes among adults with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis.
• Cardiovascular safety of sulphonylureas: over 40 years of continuous controversy without an answer.
• Multimorbidity in a prospective cohort: prevalence and associations with weight loss and health status in severely obese patients.
• The impact of multimorbidity on short-term events in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: prospective cohort study.
• Increase in Daily Steps After an Exercise Specialist Led Lifestyle Intervention for Adults With Type 2 Diabetes In Primary Care: A Controlled Implementation Trial.
• Limited impact of drug exposure misclassification from non-benefit thiazolidinedione drug use on mortality and hospitalizations from Saskatchewan, Canada: a cohort study.
• Cost-effectiveness analysis of adding pharmacists to primary care teams to reduce cardiovascular risk in patients with Type 2 diabetes: results from a randomized controlled trial.
• Comparative cardiovascular safety of insulin secretagogues following hospitalization for ischemic heart disease among type 2 diabetes patients: a cohort study.

2014

• Effect of oral vitamin D analogs on mortality and cardiovascular outcomes among adults with chronic kidney disease: a meta-analysis.
• The impact of multimorbidity on short-term events in patients with community-acquired pneumonia: prospective cohort study.
• Safety and effectiveness of dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors versus intermediate-acting insulin or placebo for patients with type 2 diabetes failing two oral antihyperglycaemic agents: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
• Comparative cardiovascular safety of insulin secretagogues following hospitalization for ischemic heart disease among type 2 diabetes patients: a cohort study.
• Mortality risk among sulfonylureas: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.
• Diabetes that impacts on routine activities predicts slower recovery after total knee arthroplasty: an observational study.
• Sex-based disparities in cardioprotective medication use in adults with diabetes.
• Impact of gestational diabetes mellitus and high maternal weight on the development of diabetes, hypertension and cardiovascular disease: a population-level analysis.
• Health literacy and nurses’ communication with type 2 diabetes patients in primary care settings.
• Trends in postcoronary artery bypass graft sternal wound dehiscence in a provincial population.
• Weight loss required by the severely obese to achieve clinically important differences in health-related quality of life: two-year prospective cohort study.
• Collaborative care versus screening and follow-up for patients with diabetes and depressive symptoms: results of a primary care-based comparative effectiveness trial.
• Safety, effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of long acting versus intermediate acting insulin for patients with type 1 diabetes: systematic review and network meta-analysis.
• Measurement properties and comparative performance of health literacy screening questions in a predominantly low income African American population with diabetes.
• Clinical review: Effect of vitamin D3 supplementation on improving glucose homeostasis and preventing diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Outdoor time is associated with physical activity, sedentary time, and cardiorespiratory fitness in youth.
• Life course impact of school-based promotion of healthy eating and active living to prevent childhood obesity.
• Sitagliptin use in patients with diabetes and heart failure: a population-based retrospective cohort study.
• Implementation and evaluation of the 5As framework of obesity management in primary care: design of the 5As Team (5AsT) randomized control trial.
• Food and physical activity behaviours of adults attending a prediabetes education class.
• Association between participation in a brief diabetes education programme and glycaemic control in adults with newly diagnosed diabetes.
• Cardiovascular medication utilization and adherence among adults living in rural and urban areas: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Implementation research in osteoporosis: an update.
• Association between diabetic ketoacidosis hospitalizations and driving distance to outpatient diabetes centres in adults with type 1 diabetes mellitus.
• The 2014 Canadian Hypertension Education Program recommendations for blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, prevention, and treatment of hypertension.
• A primary care based healthy-eating and active living education session for weight reduction in the pre-diabetic population.
• Prompted awareness and use of Eating Well with Canada’s Food Guide: a population-based study.
• Comparative effectiveness of olmesartan and other angiotensin receptor blockers in diabetes mellitus: retrospective cohort study.
• Mental health and the relationship between health promotion counseling and health outcomes in chronic conditions: cross-sectional population-based study.
• Working-age adults with diabetes experience greater susceptibility to seasonal influenza: a population-based cohort study.
• Prioritization and willingness to pay for bariatric surgery: the patient perspective.
• Predictors of health-related quality of life in 500 severely obese patients.
• Prevalence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity in diabetic patients treated with aspirin.
• Weight loss and outcomes in wait-listed, medically managed, and surgically treated patients enrolled in a population-based Bariatric program: prospective cohort study.
• Effectiveness of mobile electronic devices in weight loss among overweight and obese populations: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Profile of adults with type 2 diabetes and uptake of clinical care best practices: results from the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada – Diabetes component.
• Changes in thiazolidinedione use and outcomes following removal of a prior-authorization policy: controlled time-series analysis.
• Utilization of health resources in South Asian, Chinese and white patients with diabetes mellitus.
• The effect of weight loss on health-related quality of life: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.
• Vigorous physical activity and longitudinal associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in youth.

2013

• Diabetes treatments and cancer risk: the importance of considering aspects of drug exposure.
• Prevalence of high on-treatment platelet reactivity in diabetic patients treated with aspirin.
• Profile of adults with type 2 diabetes and uptake of clinical care best practices: results from the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada – Diabetes component.
• Multimorbidity prevalence in the general population: the role of obesity in chronic disease clustering.
• Use patterns of antidiabetic regimens by patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Utilization of health resources in South Asian, Chinese and white patients with diabetes mellitus.
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes: Results of the 2011 Survey on Living with Chronic Diseases in Canada.
• Risks of gestational diabetes and preeclampsia over the last decade in a cohort of Alberta women.
• A simple prediction rule for all-cause mortality in a cohort eligible for bariatric surgery.
• The effect of weight loss on health-related quality of life: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized trials.
• Hypoglycemia associated with hospitalization and adverse events in older people: population-based cohort study.
• The evaluating self-management and educational support in severely obese patients awaiting multidisciplinary bariatric care (EVOLUTION) trial: rationale and design.
• Hospitalization for uncomplicated hypertension: an ambulatory care sensitive condition.
• Vigorous physical activity and longitudinal associations with cardiometabolic risk factors in youth.
• Prevalence and predictors of self-reported sexual abuse in severely obese patients in a population-based bariatric program.
• Risk of acute coronary events associated with glyburide compared with gliclazide use in patients with type 2 diabetes: a nested case-control study.
• Risks and benefits of intensive blood pressure lowering in patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Determinants of lifestyle behavior in type 2 diabetes: results of the 2011 cross-sectional survey on living with chronic diseases in Canada.
• Comparative safety and effectiveness of sitagliptin in patients with type 2 diabetes: retrospective population based cohort study.
• Join the conversation! The development and preliminary application of conversation cards in pediatric weight management.
• Anthropometric and dietary predictors of insulin sensitivity in 10- to 14-year-old boys and girls.
• Effectiveness of influenza vaccination in working-age adults with diabetes: a population-based cohort study.
• Association between maternal serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D level and pregnancy and neonatal outcomes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.
• Comparative safety and effectiveness of metformin in patients with diabetes mellitus and heart failure: systematic review of observational studies involving 34,000 patients.
• Adding pharmacists to primary care teams increases guideline-concordant antiplatelet use in patients with type 2 diabetes: results from a randomized trial.
• Clinical and socio-demographic factors associated with diabetic ketoacidosis hospitalization in adults with Type 1 diabetes.
• Health care costs in people with diabetes and their association with glycemic control and kidney function.
• Health literacy and health outcomes in diabetes: a systematic review.
• Obesity and outcomes in patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
• The Alberta Diabetes and Physical Activity Trial (ADAPT): a randomized trial evaluating theory-based interventions to increase physical activity in adults with type 2 diabetes.
• Measuring health literacy in individuals with diabetes: a systematic review and evaluation of available measures.
• Health related quality of life measures in Arabic speaking populations: a systematic review on cross-cultural adaptation and measurement properties.

2012

 

• Anthropometric and dietary predictors of insulin sensitivity in 10- to 14-year-old boys and girls.
• Health care costs in people with diabetes and their association with glycemic control and kidney function.
• Insulin use and cancer risk in patients with type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies.
• Applying the RE-AIM framework to the Alberta’s Caring for Diabetes Project: a protocol for a comprehensive evaluation of primary care quality improvement interventions.
• Health literacy and health outcomes in diabetes: a systematic review.
• Thiazolidinedione use and cancer incidence in type 2 diabetes: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Characteristics of the population eligible for and receiving publicly funded bariatric surgery in Canada.
• Physical activity intensity and cardiometabolic risk in youth.
• Obesity and outcomes in patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
• Controlled trial of a collaborative primary care team model for patients with diabetes and depression: rationale and design for a comprehensive evaluation.
• Stress hyperglycemia and newly diagnosed diabetes in 2124 patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
• Use of thiazolidinediones and the risk of bladder cancer among people with type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis.
• PP157. Risk of preeclampsia in pregnant women with gestational diabetes in Alberta.
• Healthy eating and active living for diabetes in primary care networks (HEALD-PCN): rationale, design, and evaluation of a pragmatic controlled trial for adults with type 2 diabetes.
• The 2012 Canadian hypertension education program recommendations for the management of hypertension: blood pressure measurement, diagnosis, assessment of risk, and therapy.
• Increasing rates of diabetes amongst status Aboriginal youth in Alberta, Canada.
• Restrictive drug coverage policies can induce substantial drug exposure misclassification in pharmacoepidemiologic studies.
• Relationship between duration of type 2 diabetes and self-reported participation in diabetes education in Korea.
• Measuring health literacy in individuals with diabetes: a systematic review and evaluation of available measures.
• Adding pharmacists to primary care teams reduces predicted long-term risk of cardiovascular events in type 2 diabetic patients without established cardiovascular disease: results from a randomized trial.
• Diabetes and cancer (1): evaluating the temporal relationship between type 2 diabetes and cancer incidence.
• Patient-level evaluation of community-based, multifactorial intervention to prevent diabetic nephropathy in northern alberta, Canada.
• Utilization of general and specialized cardiac care by people with schizophrenia.
• Quantifying the impact of drug exposure misclassification due to restrictive drug coverage in administrative databases: a simulation cohort study.
• Enrolment in primary care networks: impact on outcomes and processes of care for patients with diabetes.
• Validation of classification algorithms for childhood diabetes identified from administrative data.
• Filling a Need: Pediatric Lifestyle Programs for Diabetes and Weight Management.

2011

2010

• Oxygen saturations less than 92% are associated with major adverse events in outpatients with pneumonia: a population-based cohort study.
• Physical activity related information sources predict physical activity behaviors in adults with type 2 diabetes.
• Determinants of quality of life in type 2 diabetes population: the inclusion of personality.
• Intensive glycaemic control and cancer risk in type 2 diabetes: a meta-analysis of major trials.
• The Alberta population-based prospective evaluation of the quality of life outcomes and economic impact of bariatric surgery (APPLES) study: background, design and rationale.
• Effect of adding pharmacists to primary care teams on blood pressure control in patients with type 2 diabetes: a randomized controlled trial.
• Prognostic impact of pre-operative albumin on short-term mortality and complications in patients with hip fracture.
• Insulin, glucose and the increased risk of cancer in patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Do researchers use pharmacists’ communication as an outcome measure? A scoping review of pharmacist involvement in diabetes care.
• Diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and health care use in people with and without schizophrenia.
• Child Health Ecological Surveillance System (CHESS) for childhood obesity: a feasibility study.
• Association between direct measures of body composition and prognostic factors in chronic heart failure.
• Admission hypoglycemia and increased mortality in patients hospitalized with pneumonia.
• Effect of preoperative glucose-insulin-potassium infusions on mortality and atrial fibrillation after coronary artery bypass grafting: a systematic review and meta-analysis.
• Physical activity and stages of change: a longitudinal test in types 1 and 2 diabetes samples.
• Glucose-lowering therapies and cancer risk: the trials and tribulations of trials and observations.
• Glucose-lowering agents and cancer mortality rates in type 2 diabetes: assessing effects of time-varying exposure.
• Validity of administrative data claim-based methods for identifying individuals with diabetes at a population level.
• Glycemic control and the risk of death in 1,484 patients receiving maintenance hemodialysis.
• Association of median household income with burden of coronary artery disease among individuals with diabetes.
• Outcomes in a diabetic population of South Asians and whites following hospitalization for acute myocardial infarction: a retrospective cohort study.
• Prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors and disease in people with schizophrenia: a population-based study.
• Alberta Diabetes and Physical Activity Trial (ADAPT): a randomized theory-based efficacy trial for adults with type 2 diabetes–rationale, design, recruitment, evaluation, and dissemination.
• Dysglycaemia and 90 day and 1 year risks of death or readmission in patients hospitalized for community-acquired pneumonia.
• Metabolic risk varies according to waist circumference measurement site in overweight boys and girls.
• Insulin use and increased risk of mortality in type 2 diabetes: a cohort study.

2009

• Association of median household income with burden of coronary artery disease among individuals with diabetes.
• Dysglycaemia and 90 day and 1 year risks of death or readmission in patients hospitalised for community-acquired pneumonia.
• The Enhancing Secondary Prevention in Coronary Artery Disease trial.
• Increasing incidence and prevalence with limited survival gains among rural Albertans with diabetes: a retrospective cohort study, 1995-2006.
• Metabolic risk varies according to waist circumference measurement site in overweight boys and girls.
• Insulin use and increased risk of mortality in type 2 diabetes: a cohort study.
• Improved cardiovascular health following a progressive walking and dietary intervention for type 2 diabetes.
• Hypertension treatment and control rates: chart review in an academic family medicine clinic.
• Forced euvolemic diuresis with mannitol and furosemide for prevention of contrast-induced nephropathy in patients with CKD undergoing coronary angiography: a randomized controlled trial.
• Increasing incidence and prevalence of diabetes among the Status Aboriginal population in urban and rural Alberta, 1995-2006.
• Risk of heart failure in patients with recent-onset type 2 diabetes: population-based cohort study.
• Preoperative statin use and infection after cardiac surgery: a cohort study.
• Metformin treatment in diabetes and heart failure: when academic equipoise meets clinical reality.
• Elevated body mass index and use of coronary revascularization after cardiac catheterization.
• Admission hyperglycemia predicts a worse outcome in stroke patients treated with intravenous thrombolysis.
• Long-term outcomes of patients receiving drug-eluting stents.

2008

• Risk of heart failure in patients with recent-onset type 2 diabetes: population-based cohort study.
• Maintenance of improved lipid levels following attendance at a cardiovascular risk reduction clinic: a 10-year experience.
• Long-term outcomes of patients receiving drug-eluting stents.
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose was not cost-effective in non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes.
• Glycaemic control was not affected by self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.
• A randomized trial of the effect of community pharmacist and nurse care on improving blood pressure management in patients with diabetes mellitus: study of cardiovascular risk intervention by pharmacists-hypertension (SCRIP-HTN).
• Access to health care among status Aboriginal people with chronic kidney disease.
• Self-monitoring of blood glucose was not cost-effective in non-insulin-treated type 2 diabetes.
• Glycemic control was not affected by self-monitoring of blood glucose in type 2 diabetes.
• The darkening cloud of diabetes: do trends in cardiovascular risk management provide a silver lining?
• Walking: a matter of quantity and quality physical activity for type 2 diabetes management.
• The ankle-to-arm blood pressure index predicts risk of cardiac complications after noncardiac surgery.
• Health-related behaviours in adults with diabetes: associations with health care utilization and costs.
• The risk of heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes treated with oral agent monotherapy.
• Review: thiazolidinediones increase congestive heart failure but not cardiovascular deaths in prediabetes or type 2 diabetes.
• The efficacy and safety of intensive statin therapy: a meta-analysis of randomized trials.
• Impaired fasting glucose and impaired glucose tolerance, as well as known diabetes, increased risk for death within 5 years.
• Acute effect of metformin on exercise capacity in active males.
• Type of antidepressant therapy and risk of type 2 diabetes in people with depression.
• Clinical in-stent restenosis with bare metal stents: is it truly a benign phenomenon?

2007

• Health care costs and mortality for Canadian urban and rural patients with diabetes: population-based trends from 1993-2001.
• Health care costs and mortality for Canadian urban and rural patients with diabetes: population-based trends from 1993-2001.
• Acute effect of metformin on exercise capacity in active males.
• Prevalence of chronic kidney disease and survival among aboriginal people.
• Quality of life after islet transplant: impact of the number of islet infusions and metabolic outcome.
• Benefits and harms of antidiabetic agents in patients with diabetes and heart failure: systematic review.
• Type of antidepressant therapy and risk of type 2 diabetes in people with depression.
• Clinical in-stent restenosis with bare metal stents: is it truly a benign phenomenon?
• How evidence-based are the recommendations in evidence-based guidelines?
• Short-term risk for stroke is doubled in persons with newly treated type 2 diabetes compared with persons without diabetes: a population-based cohort study.
• Glycemic control and use of the insulin sliding scale in hospitalized patients with diabetes.
• The effect of specialist care within the first year on subsequent outcomes in 24,232 adults with new-onset diabetes mellitus: population-based cohort study.
• Derivation and validation of a clinical index for prediction of rapid progression of kidney dysfunction.
• Drug treatments for obesity: orlistat, sibutramine, and rimonabant.

2006

• Utilization of diabetes medication and cost of testing supplies in Saskatchewan, 2001.
• The natural history of LDL control in type 2 diabetes: a prospective study of adherence to lipid guidelines.
• Health care use and costs in the decade after identification of type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a population-based study.
• Self-monitoring in Type 2 diabetes: a randomized trial of reimbursement policy.
• Association of socio-economic status with diabetes prevalence and utilization of diabetes care services.
• Treatment and blood pressure control in 47,964 people with diabetes and hypertension: a systematic review of observational studies.
• Understanding the determinants of health for people with type 2 diabetes.
• Type 2 diabetes does not increase risk of depression.
• Walking faster: distilling a complex prescription for type 2 diabetes management through pedometry.
• Health Utilities Index mark 3 demonstrated construct validity in a population-based sample with type 2 diabetes.
• A cross-sectional study of health-related quality of life deficits in individuals with comorbid diabetes and cancer.
• Misinterpretation with norm-based scoring of health status in adults with type 1 diabetes.
• Progression of kidney dysfunction in the community-dwelling elderly.
• Increased cancer-related mortality for patients with type 2 diabetes who use sulfonylureas or insulin.
• External validation of a percutaneous coronary intervention mortality prediction model in patients with acute coronary syndromes.
• Dose-response relation between sulfonylurea drugs and mortality in type 2 diabetes mellitus: a population-based cohort study.

2005

• Risk factors for new-onset diabetes mellitus in patients receiving protease inhibitor therapy.
• Improved clinical outcomes associated with metformin in patients with diabetes and heart failure.
• Angiotensin receptor blockers and risk of myocardial infarction: systematic review.
• Relationship between number, timing, and type of pharmacist interventions and patient outcomes.
• Understanding the complex associations between patient-provider relationships, self-care behaviours, and health-related quality of life in type 2 diabetes: a structural equation modeling approach.
• Health-related quality of life deficits associated with diabetes and comorbidities in a Canadian National Population Health Survey.
• Secondary failure rates associated with metformin and sulfonylurea therapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• Measuring habitual walking speed of people with type 2 diabetes: are they meeting recommendations?
• History of depression increases risk of type 2 diabetes in younger adults.
• The relation between hyperglycemia and outcomes in 2,471 patients admitted to the hospital with community-acquired pneumonia.
• Generalizability and persistence of a multifaceted intervention for improving quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Reduced cardiovascular morbidity and mortality associated with metformin use in subjects with Type 2 diabetes.
• Long-term impact of a community pharmacist intervention on cholesterol levels in patients at high risk for cardiovascular events: extended follow-up of the second study of cardiovascular risk intervention by pharmacists (SCRIP-plus).
• Management of community-acquired pneumonia in the emergency room.
• A systematic review of drug therapy to delay or prevent type 2 diabetes.
• Economic evaluation of sirolimus-eluting stents.

2004

• Evidence of suboptimal management of cardiovascular risk in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus and symptomatic atherosclerosis.
• The association among renal insufficiency, pharmacotherapy, and outcomes in 6,427 patients with heart failure and coronary artery disease.
• Survival after coronary revascularization among patients with kidney disease.
• Statin use in Type 2 diabetes mellitus is associated with a delay in starting insulin.
• Lack of insurance coverage for testing supplies is associated with poorer glycemic control in patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Treatment gaps for hypertension management in rural Canadian patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
• Reduced mortality associated with the use of ACE inhibitors in patients with type 2 diabetes.
• Improvements in patient-reported outcomes associated with an intervention to enhance quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes: results of a controlled trial.
• Underuse of aspirin in type 2 diabetes mellitus: prevalence and correlates of therapy in rural Canada.
• Performance of the RAND-12 and SF-12 summary scores in type 2 diabetes.
• Construct validity of the RAND-12 and Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and 3 in type 2 diabetes.
• Detailed cost analysis of care for survivors of severe sepsis.
• Greater effect of enhanced pharmacist care on cholesterol management in patients with diabetes mellitus: a planned subgroup analysis of the Study of Cardiovascular Risk Intervention by Pharmacists (SCRIP).
• Effect of community pharmacist intervention on cholesterol levels in patients at high risk of cardiovascular events: the Second Study of Cardiovascular Risk Intervention by Pharmacists (SCRIP-plus).

2003

• Stroke: strategies for primary prevention.
• Health-related quality of life deficits associated with varying degrees of disease severity in type 2 diabetes.
• A comparison of the health utilities indices Mark 2 and Mark 3 in type 2 diabetes.
• Sex differences in the prognostic importance of diabetes in patients with ischemic heart disease undergoing coronary angiography.
• Controlled trial of a multifaceted intervention for improving quality of care for rural patients with type 2 diabetes.
• The cost of major comorbidity in people with diabetes mellitus.
• In-hospital outcomes after percutaneous coronary intervention in Canada: 1992/93 to 2000/01.
• Outcomes after coronary artery bypass graft surgery in Canada: 1992/93 to 2000/01.
• Compliance with clinical practice guidelines for type 2 diabetes in rural patients: treatment gaps and opportunities for improvement.

2002

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