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Mary Cushman: Circulating Biomarkers and New Risk Score Enhance Stroke Prediction in AFib
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Aug 9, 2025, 05:49

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

The Calculator is live here.

Mary Cushman: Circulating Biomarkers and New Risk Score Enhance Stroke Prediction in AFib

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