Brown Alpert Medical School Stroke Researcher to Discuss Big Finding on LIVE at 4:15 P.M.

Brown Alpert Medical School Stroke Researcher to Discuss Big Finding on LIVE at 4:15 P.M.

Dr. Tracy Madsen, an assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, will appear on “Smart Health” on GoLocal LIVE on Tuesday at 4:15 p.m, where she will talk about her latest research in stroke prevention — and treatment.

"In recent years, we have started to learn more about how well-established stroke risk factors like high blood pressure and diabetes differ between women and men. Unfortunately, we still lack an understanding of how female hormones affect stroke risk across the lifespan for women," said Madsen, M.D., Sc.M., lead author of the study and assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School.

Low levels of a protein that binds to and transports sex hormones in the blood may indicate women who have a higher risk of ischemic stroke, according to preliminary research just presented by Madsen at the American Stroke Association's International Stroke Conference 2020 in Los Angeles, a world premiere meeting for researchers and clinicians dedicated to the science of stroke and brain health. The corresponding article was published in the journal Stroke.

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About Madsen

Madsen is an Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine in the Division of Sex and Gender in Emergency Medicine within the Department of Emergency Medicine.  Dr. Madsen completed both her undergraduate and medical degrees at Boston University before coming to Providence to complete a residency in Emergency Medicine.

Following residency, Dr. Madsen completed a 2-year research fellowship with a focus on sex and gender differences in acute aspects of disease and earned a Master's degree in Clinical and Translational Research.

About Alpert Medical School -- and Smart Health

Since granting its first Doctor of Medicine degrees in 1975, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader in medical education and biomedical research.

By attracting first-class physicians and researchers to Rhode Island over the past four decades, the Medical School and its seven affiliated teaching hospitals have radically improved the state's health care environment, from health care policy to patient care.

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