Having diabetes is a risk factor for many other health conditions, including stroke.
Having diabetes is a risk factor for many other health conditions, including stroke.
“Every 40 seconds an American has a stroke,” says Frederick Korley, M.D., Ph.D., an assistant professor of emergency medicine at Michigan Medicine. “To be successful at preventing strokes from occurring, we first need to accurately identify those who are likely to have a stroke so we can target stroke prevention therapies to the correct at-risk people.”
Korley is the author of a new study, published in Stroke, that measured levels of a blood protein in patients with diabetes, who had not previously had a stroke, to predict their risk of experiencing a stroke in the future.
“We hypothesized that before an individual has a stroke, they often have ‘small strokes’ that do not cause clinical symptoms,” says Korley, also a member of the Michigan Center for Integrative Research in Critical Care.
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