Blood biomarkers are associated with brain function and blood flow following sport concussion

This should be quite applicable to stroke. But followup will never occur since we have NO stroke leadership and NO stroke strategy.
https://www.mdlinx.com/internal-medicine/medical-news-article/2018/03/23/peripheral-blood-biomarkers-mri-concussed/7508150/?

Journal of Neuroimmunology — | March 23, 2018

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Di Battista AP, et al. - Given that combining blood biomarker analysis with advanced neuroimaging may help elucidate important secondary injury mechanisms and validate their continued utility in brain injury research, researchers herein assessed co-modulation between peripheral blood biomarkers and advanced functional brain imaging after sport-related concussion (SRC). In both recently concussed athletes and healthy athletes with a history of concussion, strong links between peripheral blood biomarkers and Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) measures were found. The continued implementation of blood biomarkers as a tool to investigate brain injury, particularly in a multimodal framework, was supported. This work further support that human concussion is associated with inflammation, oxidative stress, and cellular damage, and that physiological perturbations may extend chronically beyond recovery.

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