bioRxiv preprint doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/555417; this version posted February 20, 2019. The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder. All rights reserved. No reuse allowed without permission. 1 Metabolic Modulation Predicts Heart Failure Tests Performance 2 Daniel Contaifer Jr1, Leo F. Buckley1, George Wohlford1, Naren G Kumar1,2, Joshua M. 3 Morriss1, Asanga D. Ranasinghe3, Salvatore Carbone4, Justin M Canada4, Cory Trankle4, 4 Antonio Abbate4,5, *Benjamin W. Van Tassell1, *Dayanjan S Wijesinghe1,6,7 5 1 Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Sciences, School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth 6 University, Richmond VA 23298 7 2 Department of Microbiology, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 8 23298 9 3 Department of Physical and Biological Sciences, Amarillo College TX 79109 10 4 Pauley Heart Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA 23298 11 5 Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 12 23298 13 6 Da Vinci Center, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond VA 23284 14 7 Institute for Structural Biology Drug Discovery and Development (ISB3D), VCU School of Pharmacy, 15 Richmond VA 23298 16 17 * = Co-senior authors, equal contribution 18 Please send correspondences to: 19 Dayanjan S Wijesinghe, Ph.D. 20 Department of Pharmacotherapy and Outcomes Sciences 21 School of Pharmacy, Virginia Commonwealth University, 22 PO Box 980533 23 Robert Blackwell Smith Bldg. Rm. 652A 24 410 North 12th Street 25 Richmond, VA 23298-5048 26 USA 27 P: (804) 628 3316 F: (804) 828 0343 28 Email:
[email protected] 29 And 30 Benjamin Van Tassell, PharmD, BCPS, FCCP, ASH-CHC.