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Comment
. 2017 Jul 24;189(29):E952-E953.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.170410.

Long-term stroke prevention: We can do better

Michael D Hill  1
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Comment

Long-term stroke prevention: We can do better

Michael D Hill. CMAJ. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: Michael Hill reports personal fees from Merck, non-financial support from Hoffmann-La Roche Canada Ltd., and grants from Covidien (Medtronic Minimally Invasive Therapies), Boehringer Ingelheim, Medtronic, NoNO Inc. and Stryker Inc., outside the submitted work. In addition, he has a patent pending for systems and methods for assisting in decision-making and triaging for acute stroke patients to the US Patent Office, number 62/086,077. He owns stock in Calgary Scientific Inc., a company that focuses on medical imaging software; is a director of the Canadian Neurological Sciences Federation, a not-for-profit group; and has received grant support from Alberta Innovates: Health Solutions, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada and the National Institutes of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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