Stroke Alert March 2021

<p>On Episode 2 of the Stroke Alert podcast, host Dr. Negar Asdaghi highlights two featured articles from the March 2021 issue of <em>Stroke</em>. This episode also features a conversation with Dr. Joan Montaner from Neurovascular Research Laboratory at the Universitat Autònoma in Barcelona, Spain, to discuss his article “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.031657">D-Dimer as Predictor of Large Vessel Occlusion in Acute Ischemic Stroke.</a>”</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:           Can your microRNA profile predict your future risk of stroke?</p> <p>Is stroke that wake-up call to finally live a healthier lifestyle, better diet, exercise more, and stop smoking?</p> <p>Can a simple blood test improve our clinical predictive models for presence of a large vessel occlusion in patients with suspected ischemic stroke?</p> <p>We have the answers and much more in today's podcast. You're listening to Stroke Alert. Stay with us.</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:           From the Editorial Board of <em>Stroke</em>, welcome to the Stroke Alert Podcast. My name is Negar Asdaghi. I'm an Associate Professor of Neurology at the University of Miami, Miller School of Medicine, and the host of the monthly Stroke Alert Podcast. In today's podcast, I'm going to interview the senior author of the study on the values of D-dimer and predicting the presence of large vessel occlusion in stroke. But first with these two articles.</p> <p>Dr. Negar Asdaghi:           DNA noncoding sequences and introns, once thought to represent the, quote, junk DNA, quote, have been found to play an important role in the modulation of gene expression at the post transcriptional level through coding for regulatory molecules, such as microRNAs, or miRNA. Whether the presence of certain miRNAs can signal a future risk of development of stroke is unknown. In their paper titled “<a href= "https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.120.031543">Circulatory MicroRNAs as Potential Biomarkers for Stroke Risk: The Rotterdam Study</a>,” Dr. Mich