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This study aimed to identify serum proteomic biomarkers commonly elevated in both first-onset and recurrent IS and to evaluate their ability to discriminate each disease state from healthy controls in a Chinese cold-region population.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>The study was conducted in two phases. In the discovery phase, 10 patients with first-onset IS, 10 with recurrent IS, and 10 healthy controls were analyzed using Data-Independent Acquisition (DIA) proteomics; the validation phase expanded the sample to 49 patients with first-onset IS, 30 with recurrent IS, and 50 healthy controls. Differentially expressed proteins were defined as fold change\u22651.5 or \u22640.67. Multivariable Firth penalized logistic regression adjusted for age and sex constructed diagnostic models, with data randomly split into training and test sets (2:1) for receiver operating characteristic (ROC) analysis.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Two core proteins were identified: matrix Gla protein (MGP) and eosinophil cationic protein (ECP). Both were significantly elevated in the first-onset and recurrent IS groups compared with healthy controls (all\n                      <jats:italic>p<\/jats:italic>\n                      \u202f&amp;lt;\u202f0.05). Two separate logistic models incorporating these proteins discriminated first-onset IS (test-set AUC 0.993) and recurrent IS (test-set AUC 0.959) from healthy controls, confirmed by repeated 10-fold cross-validation; the two proteins did not differ significantly between the patient groups. Enrichment analysis of their interaction partners revealed involvement in neutrophil extracellular trap formation, inflammatory responses, and immune regulation.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Serum MGP and ECP were commonly elevated in both first-onset and recurrent IS, and two separate combinatorial models discriminated each disease state from healthy controls with high accuracy. This biomarker panel covers three core pathological processes-atherosclerosis and vascular calcification, chronic inflammation, and hypercoagulable state-providing candidate biomarkers that warrant further investigation for disease-state characterization and risk stratification, particularly in high-latitude cold-region populations.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fneur.2026.1885191","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,29]],"date-time":"2026-09-29T04:33:44Z","timestamp":1790656424000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Serum MGP and ECP are commonly elevated in first-onset and recurrent ischemic stroke: a two-phase DIA proteomic study in a Chinese cold-region cohort"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Ningning","family":"Wang","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Polygenic Disease, Qiqihar Medical University","place":["Qiqihar, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhengguang","family":"Guo","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Ming","family":"Jin","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Polygenic Disease, Qiqihar Medical University","place":["Qiqihar, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nan","family":"Wu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Polygenic Disease, Qiqihar Medical University","place":["Qiqihar, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zhi","family":"Zheng","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Wei","family":"Sun","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Zaihua","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Mingzhu Hospital","place":["Qiqihar, Heilongjiang, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Changchun","family":"Qiu","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Polygenic Disease, Qiqihar Medical University","place":["Qiqihar, China"]},{"name":"Institute of Basic Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College","place":["Beijing, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Keyong","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Polygenic Disease, Qiqihar Medical University","place":["Qiqihar, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1965","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","first-page":"e93","DOI":"10.1161\/CIR.0000000000001123","article-title":"American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention Statistics Committee and Stroke Statistics Subcommittee. 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