Lipid levels: A novel biomarker of impending intracerebral hemorrhage?

Despite many established behavioral and medical risk factors, such as smoking, hypertension, and atrial fibrillation, predicting which patients will develop a stroke and when it will occur remains vexing for clinicians and researchers alike. No matter how intuitive their existence, establishing more proximate triggers of stroke has proven quite difficult with some notable exceptions. One example of a known exogenous, environmental trigger is stimulant drugs that can cause cerebral vasospasm or acute hypertension leading to ischemic stroke or intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH).1 Another body of evidence supports the link between preceding infectious disease triggers and incident cerebrovascular events.2
Source: Neurology - Category: Neurology Authors: Tags: Intracerebral hemorrhage EDITORIALS Source Type: research