Mary J. Roman

TL;DR: Hypertensive patients with ECG LV hypertrophy have increased LV wall stresses and stress-mass-heart rate products, suggesting a contribution of high myocardial oxygen demand to increased risk in such patients.

TL;DR: SLE predicts increased LV mass, possibly because of inflammation-related arterial stiffening, and may contribute to the increased cardiac morbidity and mortality observed in SLE patients.

TL;DR: Clinical unrecognized HC was present in 1:500 of an aging American Indian cohort, offering evidence that HC is a relatively common genetic disease with widespread occurrence within the United States.

TL;DR: The goals were to determine the prevalence of the auscultatory gap in a large cohort of asymptomatic patients with hypertension who were not receiving medication and evaluate the relation between the aUSC gap and cardiac and vascular structure and function, with special attention to findings that have been related to prognosis in previous studies.

TL;DR: The results suggest that PD patients may experience a rapid decay of attentional inhibition and do not support the notion that a decrement in processing resources underlies their attentional deficits, but further support the idea that the basal ganglia may play an important role in attentional functions.