Media Advisory
Thursday, August 27, 2020
What
A collaborative examine performed by scientists from the Nationwide Institutes of Well being, Division of Protection (DOD), and a number of educational establishments has recognized blood biomarkers that would assist to foretell which athletes want extra time to get better from a sports activities associated concussion. This collaboration, often called the Concussion Evaluation, Analysis, and Schooling (CARE) consortium, is supported, partially, by DOD and the Nationwide Collegiate Athletic Affiliation (NCAA).
On this examine, performed at a number of websites throughout the U.S., 127 female and male collegiate athletes who had sustained a sports-related concussion have been examined at a number of time factors: shortly after harm, when their signs resolved, and one week after returning to play. Every athlete had additionally undergone preseason, baseline testing.
Utilizing an ultrasensitive assay that may detect minute quantities of protein, the researchers examined blood serum from these athletes and recognized two blood proteins that have been related to the size of time wanted by the athletes to return to play. Quantities of those two proteins, tau protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) have been discovered to be considerably totally different in athletes who wanted much less or greater than 14 days to return. Whereas additional analysis is required, the outcomes of this examine are an necessary step in direction of the event of a check that would assist predict which athletes want extra time to get better from a concussion and resume exercise.
This examine was printed in JAMA Community Open.
Who
NINR Performing Scientific Director and examine writer Jessica M. Gill, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN is on the market for remark.
Article
CL Pattinson et al. Plasma Biomarker Concentrations Related to Return to Sport Following Sport-Associated Concussion in Collegiate Athletes – A Concussion Evaluation, Analysis, and Schooling (CARE) Consortium Examine. JAMA Community Open. 2020;3(8):e2013191. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.13191
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