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Rurality of communities and incidence of stroke: a confounding effect of weather conditions?

Masatoshi  Matsumoto

Prof Masatoshi Matsumoto

qualifications: MD

position: Associate professor

Japan

Masatoshi Matsumoto is the professor of rural health at Hiroshima University, Japan. He is a general practitioner who worked for some years in the least populated mountain village in rural Japan. He has taught rural health at Jichi Medical University, the Japanese medical school founded solely for producing rural doctors, for more than ten years. His academic interests are rural health policy, rural medical education, medical anthropology and rural community-based epidemiology.


Shizukiyo  Ishikawa

Shizukiyo Ishikawa

qualifications: MD

position: Associate professor

Japan

Cardiovascular cohort study in Japanese populasion Epidemiology community medicine


Eiji  Kajii

Eiji Kajii

qualifications: MD

position: Professor


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