Needle in a haystack: Two days after stroke, a handful of blood cells reveal risk of dementia a year later

Tuesday, March 12, 2019 - 15:00 in Health & Medicine

A pattern of inflammatory activity in circulating blood cells two days after a stroke strongly predicts the likelihood of losing substantial mental acuity one year later, investigators at the Stanford University School of Medicine report in a new study. The findings, based on a longitudinal analysis of all major immune cell types in the blood […]

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