CVIA Journal

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Accurate diagnosis of transient ischemic attacks (TIAs) is challenging. This study was aimed at analyzing blood biomarkers to distinguish TIAs from mimics.

The levels of eight candidate biomarkers were measured in 234 patients with suspected TIA, 103 of whom had TIA and 131 of whom had mimics. We compared the groups, examined the effects of the biomarkers via logistic regression, compared models with likelihood ratio tests, assessed predictive accuracy with receiver operating characteristic analysis, and optimized cutoff values with the PanelomiX algorithm.

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