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Clinical Trials and Preclinical Infrastructure Asset Map - Life Sciences

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CLINICAL TRIALS AND PRECLINICAL INFRASTRUCTURE ASSET MAP<br />

251<br />

Disease Area<br />

Population Information<br />

Alzheimer’s Disease <strong>and</strong> related disorders<br />

Over 1,200 registered patients<br />

in UBC Clinic for Alzheimer’s<br />

Disease <strong>and</strong> Related Disorders 8<br />

Bipolar Disorder<br />

Approx. 400 registered 8 with<br />

the UBC Mood Disorders Clinic<br />

(www.ubcmood.ca)<br />

Depression <strong>and</strong> anxiety 300,000 patients per year 9<br />

Illegal drug addiction 33,000 prevalence 7<br />

Multiple sclerosis (MS)<br />

Over 4,500 registered with the<br />

UBC MS clinic 8<br />

Parkinson's Disease (PD) <strong>and</strong> Parkinson-like disorders (PLD) 1,100 with typical PD, 400<br />

patients with PLD, 500 – 1,000<br />

dystonia patients registered<br />

with the UBC Movement<br />

Disorders Clinic 8<br />

Smokers 700,000 prevalence 7<br />

Youth ADHD population 30,900 prevalence 10<br />

Infectious Diseases New Case Reports in 2008<br />

(except for AIDS) 11<br />

AIDS 78 (2007)<br />

Amebiasis 338<br />

Campylobacteriosis 1,635<br />

Chlamydia 10,629<br />

Cryptosporidiosis 115<br />

Cyclosporiasis 32<br />

E. coli, Verotoxigenic 114<br />

Ciardiasis 632<br />

Gonorrhea 1,391<br />

Hepatitis A 39<br />

Hepatitis B (acute) 29<br />

Hepatitis C 2,479<br />

7<br />

Stepping Forward. Improving Addiction Care in British Columbia. BC Medical Association, 2009. http://www.bcma.org/files/Addiction_Stepping_Forward.pdf.<br />

p. 5. Accessed October 22, 2009.<br />

8<br />

Neurosciences <strong>Asset</strong> <strong>Map</strong> British Columbia. www.investbc.com/assetmaps.htm. Accessed October 15, 2009.<br />

9<br />

Stepping Out of the Shadows. Collaborating to Improve Services for Patients with Depression. https://www.bcma.org/files/Depression_paper_aug13.pdf.<br />

p. 12. Accessed October 22, 2009.<br />

10<br />

BC Ministry of Children <strong>and</strong> Family Development, 2003. Child <strong>and</strong> Youth Mental health Plan for British Columbia. Cited “Your Attention<br />

Please”. Improving Access for ADHD Patients. BC Medical Association, 2009. http://www.bcma.org/files/ADHD_paper.pdf.<br />

Accessed October 22, 2009.<br />

11<br />

http://www.bccdc.ca/NR/rdonlyres/59BFCFBB-933D-4337-9305-E3E5FF30D272/0/EPI_Report_CDAnnual2008_20090806.pdf. Accessed<br />

November 4, 2009.<br />

12<br />

B.C. Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS. http://www.cfenet.ubc.ca/content.phpid=18. Accessed November 22, 2009.

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