Publications by authors named "L M Brewer"
Study Objectives: A non-intrusive sleep monitoring technology based on the data from a commercially available depth sensing camera has been utilized for respiratory monitoring and shown to have good performance in assessing respiratory rates across a range of rates. This non-contact, or , technology allows continuous respiratory monitoring without attaching probes to the patient. We have noticed a strikingly similar morphology between the touchless flow signal (NCM) and the flow signal derived using the chest and abdomen respiratory inductance plethysmography (RIP) bands.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: African Americans have a higher prevalence of cardiovascular risk factors, leading to higher cardiovascular disease mortality than White adults. Our culturally tailored mobile health (mHealth) lifestyle intervention () has previously demonstrated efficacy in promoting ideal cardiovascular health in African Americans.
Methods: We conducted a secondary analysis from a cluster randomized controlled trial among African-Americans from 16 churches in Minnesota that compared the to a delayed intervention control group.
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- The study investigated the link between predelivery cardiology care and major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) in Black and White patients with Preeclampsia/Eclampsia (PrE/E), using data from 29,336 patients delivered between 2008 and 2019.
- Findings revealed that Black patients experienced a higher cumulative incidence of MACE within a year post-delivery compared to White patients, particularly in the first 14 days.
- Predelivery cardiology care reduced the risk of MACE for White patients shortly after delivery, but did not have a significant impact for Black patients during the same period.
Creating statistically equivalent virtual microstructures (SEVM) for polycrystalline materials with complex microstructures that encompass multi-modal morphological and crystallographic distributions is a challenging enterprise. Cold spray-formed (CSF) AA7050 alloy containing coarse-grained prior particles and ultra-fine grains (UFG) and additively manufactured (AM) Ti64 alloys with alpha laths in beta substrates. The paper introduces an approach strategically integrating a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) for multi-modal microstructures with a synthetic microstructure builder DREAM.
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