"British Columbia" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A province of Canada on the Pacific coast. Its capital is Victoria. The name given in 1858 derives from the Columbia River which was named by the American captain Robert Gray for his ship Columbia which in turn was named for Columbus. (From Webster's New Geographical Dictionary, 1988, p178 & Room, Brewer's Dictionary of Names, 1992, p81-2)
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D001955
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| MeSH Number(s) |
Z01.107.567.176.160
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| 1996 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2019 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| 2024 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "British Columbia" 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 Jun; 44(6):1383-1395.
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Estimating chronic hepatitis C prevalence in British Columbia and Ontario, Canada, using population-based cohort studies. J Viral Hepat. 2020 12; 27(12):1419-1429.
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Phenome-wide examination of comorbidity burden and multiple sclerosis disease severity. Neurol Neuroimmunol Neuroinflamm. 2020 11; 7(6).
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Density and proximity to hydraulic fracturing wells and birth outcomes in Northeastern British Columbia, Canada. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2021 02; 31(1):53-61.
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Mismatch repair protein loss in breast cancer: clinicopathological associations in a large British Columbia cohort. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 2020 Jan; 179(1):3-10.
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Increased Risk of Obesity and Metabolic Dysregulation Following 12 Months of Second-Generation Antipsychotic Treatment in Children: A Prospective Cohort Study. Can J Psychiatry. 2015 Oct; 60(10):441-50.
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A comparison of surgical and radiotherapy breast cancer therapy utilization in Canada (British Columbia), Scotland (Dundee), and Australia (Western Australia) with models of "optimal" therapy. Breast. 2012 Aug; 21(4):570-7.
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Chronic lung disease following neonatal ventilation. I. incidence in two geographically defined populations. Pediatr Pulmonol. 1996 Jan; 21(1):20-3.