title: Identifying blood biomarkers to improve the diagnosis of stroke.
abstract: Blood biomarkers are useful for the management of many diseases and could be useful for doctors caring for stroke patients, if they accurately predicted a diagnosis or recurrence of stroke. In a series of studies, we systematically reviewed the blood biomarker literature in stroke, determined the performance of existing blood biomarkers for the diagnosis of stroke and examined the value of markers of inflammation to predict recurrent stroke and myocardial infarction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh,Western General Hospital, Edinburgh, UK. william.whiteley@ed.ac.uk
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Whiteley
mesh_terms: D015415:Biomarkers / Q000097:blood*; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000097:blood / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology; D009203:Myocardial Infarction / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology; D012008:Recurrence; D020521:Stroke / Q000097:blood / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers