4th QISCPR Newsletter

Ambulatory Oxygenotherapy: No Score
Two fighters, two causes to champion, and no clear winner. That’s how one can describe the contradictory debate over ambulatory oxygenotherapy. As in hockey, the two referees didn’t even have to lift a finger. (May 10th)

The Future is Prevention
Honorary Vice-President of the cardiology section Barry Franklin is completely convinced that the future of the practice of cardiac medicine lies in prevention. (May 10th)

Turning the Page
It was with a sense of mission accomplished that Dr. Jean Jobin yesterday ended a gathering that drew 628 participants from 14 countries — despite Mother’s Day, sunny weather and the charms of a city. (May 10th)

Prevention and Rehabilitation: Potential Gains
Although "0-5-30" might look like fertilizer formula, it actually refers to healthy living habits: ‘0’ for amount of smoking, ‘5’ for the number of fruits and vegetables to eat every day, and ‘30’ for the number of minutes spent exercising each day. That’s the essence of the Prevention Combination program. (May 9th)

12,000 Fatalities and 2,5 Billion$
That’s not the cost of liberating the Holland in 1945, but rather the annual cost of smoking in Quebec. To combat the scourge, in 1999 Quebec’s department of health and social services adopted a plan to fight smoking. Six years later, that plan appears to be paying off. (May 9th)

Vital Instruments
That reducing the mortality rate of cardiovascular disease patients and improving the quality of their lives requires working with them on multiple levels is no secret among health professionals. Three approaches are generally used: lifestyle changes, medication and surgery. (May 9th)

Is Exercising Dangerous?
All too often that’s how health professionals view exercising by patients with a cardiovascular disease. (May 9th)

Obesity: an Inescapable Evil?
"Far be it from me to put forward the idea that obesity is something desirable! But the phenomenon is a corollary of the lifestyle we’ve chosen — in other words, it goes well with the way we live," says Angelo Tremblay, a professor and researcher at Laval University. (May 8th)

A Gutsy Heart
After 20 years of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and a year and a half of waiting, Sylvain Bédard could finally stop surviving and start living. And that’s certainly what he did since undergoing heart-graft surgery in the summer of 2000. Last December 2 he set the world record for altitude reached by a heart graft recipient: 6,120 metres. (May 8th)

How worth living is life?
The "quality of life" is defined in a variety of ways. Those definitions might be suitable for assessing someone’s physical condition, but Gilles Dupuis questions whether they really measure the quality of life. (May 8th)

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