Protein tau concentration in blood increases after SCUBA diving: an observational study.
Anders RosénMikael GennserNicklas OscarssonAndreas KvarnströmGöran SandströmHelen Seeman-LoddingJoel SimrénHenrik ZetterbergPublished in: European journal of applied physiology (2022)
Tau seems to be a promising marker of dive-related neuronal stress, which is independent of the presence of venous gas emboli. Future studies could validate these results and determine if there is a quantitative relationship between dive exposure and change in tau blood concentration.