"Quebec" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A province of eastern Canada. Its capital is Quebec. The region belonged to France from 1627 to 1763 when it was lost to the British. The name is from the Algonquian quilibek meaning the place where waters narrow, referring to the gradually narrowing channel of the St. Lawrence or to the narrows of the river at Cape Diamond. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p993 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p440)
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D011792
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567.176.791
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| 2002 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2009 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2016 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Quebec" by people in Profiles.
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Impact of new direct-acting antiviral therapy on the prevalence and undiagnosed proportion of chronic hepatitis C infection. Liver Int. 2024 06; 44(6):1383-1395.
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Rationale and design of REDUCE-IT: Reduction of Cardiovascular Events with Icosapent Ethyl-Intervention Trial. Clin Cardiol. 2017 Mar; 40(3):138-148.
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Pharmacosurveillance without borders: electronic health records in different countries can be used to address important methodological issues in estimating the risk of adverse events. J Clin Epidemiol. 2016 09; 77:101-111.
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Invited commentary. Ann Thorac Surg. 2011 Mar; 91(3):660.
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High frequency of exon deletions and putative founder effects in French Canadian Lynch syndrome families. Hum Mutat. 2009 Aug; 30(8):E797-812.
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Low birth weight for gestational age and subsequent male gonadal function. J Pediatr. 2002 Sep; 141(3):376-9.
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Occupation of father at time of birth of children dying of malignant diseases. Br J Prev Soc Med. 1974 May; 28(2):98-100.