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	Podcast:		UC Science Today
	Episode:		Why thousands of cases of stroke may go undetected
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:01:00
	Publish Date:		2016-11-14 18:00:00
	Description:		About 10 to 25 thousand cases of stroke, aneurysm or epilepsy may go undetected each year in the United States. This, according to Anthony Kim, director of the University of California, San Francisco Stroke Center. Kim has been studying misclassified cases of neurological death, which were erroneously thought to be sudden cardiac death. "If you think about the deaths that occur, for instance, in patients that are enrolled in clinical trials or patients that die out-of-hospital, before they can even make it to the hospital, it would account for a substantial proportion of those cases. So, it has kind of implications on the public health estimates. It has implications on the interpretations of death outcomes, in large cardiovascular trials." Kim says it also has implications on diagnosis, as well as the way medical experts look at the risks and benefits of cardiovascular treatment, such as blood thinners. For Science Today, I'm Larissa Branin.
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