9/22/2017 4:45 PM
Edited Date/Time: 9/22/2017 5:02 PM
smashingpumpkins167 wrote:
To help diagnose a heart attack they take blood samples and elevated levels of troponin indicate heart damage.
There are ...more
smashingpumpkins167 wrote:
To help diagnose a heart attack they take blood samples and elevated levels of troponin indicate heart damage.
There are studies showing that there is a similar enzyme known as ckbb that works the same to indicate brain damage. The NFL and NCAA pay a lot of money to fund the research to make sure this does not become common practice. Imagine all the NFL players getting benched because they ended up with too much brain damage during a game.
This study concluded that although the elevated ckbb levels can not specifically diagnose a concussion, they can be a good indication of adverse long term affects. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6741637
Also the diagnosis of an actual concussion is very vague because it is mostly just based on symptoms that are reported by the patient.
In all fairness, cardiac specific troponin markers have huge numbers of randomized, blinded patients, with level's I and II evidence, within at least 10 years for relevance, not to mention in practice proof (and cardiac specific troponin markers are considered a gold standard diagnostic). A study of 10 (or even if it was 1000) people, from 1984, with no blinding or randomizing does not lend itself to even a pattern, or even a vague assumption. Nice to know? Maybe, but if it was relevant then there has been a lot of time that would have at least made it so. I think that the holy grail in concussion/CTE like damage diagnoses is being sought that resembles something like a troponin marker.
Dont take my response as a personal one. I simply think that data can be misleading sometimes without knowing some of the details of how it is acquired and how reliable it really is, especially important in medicine.
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