Media Advisory

Thursday, August 27, 2020

What

A collaborative study done by scientists from the Countrywide Institutes of Well being, Department of Defense (DOD), and a number of academic institutions has recognized blood biomarkers that could assistance to predict which athletes require extra time to recuperate from a sports linked concussion. This collaboration, identified as the Concussion Assessment, Investigation, and Training (Treatment) consortium, is supported, in element, by DOD and the Countrywide Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

In this study, done at various web sites throughout the U.S., 127 male and feminine collegiate athletes who experienced sustained a sports-linked concussion were analyzed at various time factors: shortly just after injuries, when their indications settled, and a single week just after returning to engage in. Each individual athlete experienced also gone through preseason, baseline screening.

Using an ultrasensitive assay that can detect moment amounts of protein, the researchers analyzed blood serum from these athletes and recognized two blood proteins that were affiliated with the length of time needed by the athletes to return to engage in. Amounts of these two proteins, tau protein and glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) were uncovered to be significantly diverse in athletes who needed less or additional than fourteen days to return. When even further exploration is needed, the results of this study are an crucial step toward the development of a exam that could assistance predict which athletes require additional time to recuperate from a concussion and resume action.

This study was published in JAMA Community Open.

Who

NINR Acting Scientific Director and study creator Jessica M. Gill, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN is obtainable for remark.

Short article

CL Pattinson et al. Plasma Biomarker Concentrations Involved with Return to Sport Following Sport-Relevant Concussion in Collegiate Athletes – A Concussion Assessment, Investigation, and Training (Treatment) Consortium Research. JAMA Community Open. 20203(eight):e2013191. doi:ten.1001/jamanetworkopen.2020.13191

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