Left ventricular (LV) diastolic dysfunction is prevalent in the community. Current assessment
of diastolic function can be complex, involving Doppler evaluation of an array of …

This article is a literature review which seeks to answer four questions: 1) What is washback?
2) How does washback work? 3) How can we promote positive washback? 4) How can we …

Background and objectives: Studies of the impact of systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE)
and its pregnancy complications have yielded conflicting results. Major limitations of these …

… Kathi Bailey's participation in this venture was supported in part by the Allen Griffin Award
from the Community Foundation for Monterey County. Since Monterey is known as a multi-…

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… Professor Bailey's volume thus affords a rare opportunity for systematic reflection on this
vital set of techniques. Classification involves the ordering of cases in terms of their similarity …

Context Approximately half of patients with overt congestive heart failure (CHF) have
diastolic dysfunction without reduced ejection fraction (EF). Yet, the prevalence of diastolic …

Background— Limited data exist on trends in incidence of atrial fibrillation (AF). We assessed
the community-based trends in AF incidence for 1980 to 2000 and provided prevalence …

Background—Myocardial infarction (MI) can directly cause ischemic mitral regurgitation (IMR),
which has been touted as an indicator of poor prognosis in acute and early phases after …

There is an unmet clinical need for improved tissue and liquid biopsy tools for cancer detection.
We investigated the proteomic profile of extracellular vesicles and particles (EVPs) in …