Mary Cushman: Circulating Biomarkers and New Risk Score Enhance Stroke Prediction in AFib
Mary Cushman, Hematologist, University Distinguished Professor and Vice Chair for Emerging Researchers at UVM Department of Medicine, shared on X:
”New risk calculator for stroke prediction in Atrial Fibrillation
Two REGARDS Study manuscripts in JTH journal
One Identified biomarkers for breakthrough stroke
In the other we developed a new CHADS-VASc-Biomarkers score!”
Read more in the University of Vermont News Release.
Title 1: Circulating biomarkers and ischemic stroke risk in adults with atrial fibrillation taking anticoagulation: the Reasons for Geographic And Racial Differences in Stroke study
Read the full article here.
Title 2: Improving stroke risk prediction in atrial fibrillation with circulating biomarkers: the CHA2DS2-VASc–Biomarkers model
Read the full article here.
Authors: Samuel A.P. Short, Erin Hald, Katherine Wilkinson, George Howard, Virginia Howard, Suzanne E. Judd, Elsayed Z. Soliman, Brett Kissela, David Robinson, Robert Stanton, Mary Cushman
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