Improvement in Stroke Risk Prediction: Role of C-Reactive Protein and Lipoprotein-Associated Phospholipase A₂ in the Women's Health Initiative

Classification of risk of ischemic stroke is important for medical care and public health reasons. Whether addition of biomarkers adds to predictive power of the Framingham Stroke Risk or other traditional risk factors has not been studied in older women.The Hormones and Biomarkers Predicting Stroke Study is a case-control study of blood biomarkers assayed in 972 ischemic stroke cases and 972 controls, nested in the Women's Health Initiative...