ArticleStroke2016
Procalcitonin and Midregional Proatrial Natriuretic Peptide as Markers of Ischemic Stroke: The Northern Manhattan Study.
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- Association of MR-proANP Circulating Levels with Ischemic Stroke of Cardioembolic Etiology: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Translational stroke research · 2025Pooled it
- Copeptin as biomarker for acute ischemic stroke prognosis and revascularization treatment efficacy.Frontiers in neurology · 2024Pooled it
- The diagnostic and prognostic value of copeptin in patients with acute ischemic stroke and transient ischemic attack: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Cardiology journal · 2022Pooled it
- Inflammatory and stress markers predicting pneumonia, outcome, and etiology in patients with stroke: Biomarkers for predicting pneumonia, functional outcome, and death after stroke.Neurology(R) neuroimmunology & neuroinflammation · 2020Trial
- Cross-sectional study on the association between neutrophil-percentage-to-albumin ratio (NPAR) and prevalence of stroke among US adults: NHANES 1999-2018.Frontiers in neurology · 2025Article
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- A comparative study on the use of procalcitonin to distinguish between central fever and infectious causes of fever.The Pan African medical journal · 2024Article
- Procalcitonin related to stroke-associated pneumonia and clinical outcomes of acute ischemic stroke after IV rt-PA treatment.Cellular and molecular neurobiology · 2022Article
- Construction of circRNA-Mediated Immune-Related ceRNA Network and Identification of Circulating circRNAs as Diagnostic Biomarkers in Acute Ischemic Stroke.Journal of inflammation research · 2022Article
- Procalcitonin to C-reactive protein ratio is associated with short-term mortality in ischemic stroke patients: preliminary report.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2022Article
- Promising Biomarker Candidates for Cardioembolic Stroke Etiology. A Brief Narrative Review and Current Opinion.Frontiers in neurology · 2021Review
- Stroke Disparities: From Observations to Actions: Inaugural Edward J. Kenton Lecture 2020.Stroke · 2020Article
- Microbiota in cerebrovascular disease: A key player and future therapeutic target.Journal of cerebral blood flow and metabolism : official journal of the International Society of Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism · 2020Review
- Procalcitonin as a prognostic marker of patients with acute ischemic stroke.Journal of clinical laboratory analysis · 2020Article
- Blood Biomarkers for Stroke Diagnosis and Management.Neuromolecular medicine · 2019Review
- IL-6 Plasma Levels Correlate With Cerebral Perfusion Deficits and Infarct Sizes in Stroke Patients Without Associated Infections.Frontiers in neurology · 2019Article
- Procalcitonin as a Biomarker for Malignant Cerebral Edema in Massive Cerebral Infarction.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- Association between Serum Copeptin and Stroke in Rural Areas of Northern China: A Matched Case-Control Study.Disease markers · 2018Article
- Procalcitonin (PCT) Predicts Worse Outcome in Patients with Chronic Heart Failure with Reduced Ejection Fraction (HFrEF).Disease markers · 2018Article
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Abstract
background and purposeChronic infections and neuroendocrine dysfunction may be risk factors for ischemic stroke (IS). We hypothesized that selected blood biomarkers of infection (procalcitonin [PCT]), hypothalamic-pituitary-axis function (copeptin), and hemodynamic dysfunction (midregional proatrial natriuretic peptide [MRproANP]) are associated with incident IS risk in the multiethnic, urban Northern Manhattan Study (NOMAS) cohort.
methodsA nested case-control study was performed among initially stroke-free participants. Cases were defined as first IS (n=172). We randomly selected controls among those who did not develop an event (n=344). We calculated Cox proportional hazards models with inverse probability weighting to estimate the association of blood biomarkers with risk of stroke after adjusting for demographic, behavioral, and medical risk factors.
resultsThose with PCT and MRproANP, but not copeptin, in the top quartile, compared with the lowest quartile, were associated with IS (for PCT adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 1.9; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.0-3.8 and for MRproANP adjusted HR, 3.5; 95% CI, 1.6-7.5). The associations of PCT and MRproANP differed by stroke etiology; PCT levels in the top quartile were particularly associated with small vessel stroke (adjusted HR, 5.1; 95% CI, 1.4-18.7) and MRproANP levels with cardioembolic stroke (adjusted HR, 16.3; 95% CI, 3.7-70.9).
conclusionsHigher levels of PCT, a marker of infection, and MRproANP, a marker for hemodynamic stress, were independently associated with IS risk. PCT was specifically associated with small vessel and MRproANP with cardioembolic stroke risk. Further study is needed to validate these biomarkers and determine their significance in stroke risk prediction and prevention.
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