Title: Plasma cBIN1 Score (CS) Identifies HFpEF and Can Predict Cardiac Hospitalization in Stable Ambulatory Patients Short Title: Nikolova, CS as a blood based score of HFpEF patients Authors: Andriana P. Nikolova 1 , Tara C. Hitzeman 1 , Rachel Baum 1 , Bing Xu 1 , Sosse Agvanian 1 , Yu Xie 1 , Dael R. Geft 1,2 , David H. Chang 1,2 , Jaime D. Moriguchi 1,2 , Antoine Hage 1,2 , Babak Azarbal 1,2 , Lawrence S. Czer 1,2 , Michelle M. Kittleson 1,2 , Jignesh K. Patel 1,2 , Alan H. B. Wu 3 , Jon A. Kobashigawa 1,2 , Michele Hamilton 1,2 , TingTing Hong 1,2* , Robin M. Shaw 1,2* 1 Division of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Heart Institute and Department of Medicine, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA 90048, USA 2 Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA 3 Department of Laboratory Medicine, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA *Co-corresponding authors: TingTing Hong, MD, PhD and Robin M. Shaw, MD, PhD 8700 Beverly Blvd., Davis Bldg. #1016 Los Angeles, CA 90048 Fax: 310-9673891 Tel: 310-9673842 Email: tingting.hong@cshs.org and robin.shaw@cshs.org Figures and Tables: 6 (4 figures, 2 tables) Conflict of interest: None Preprints (www.preprints.org) | NOT PEER-REVIEWED | Posted: 7 January 2018 doi:10.20944/preprints201801.0041.v1 © 2017 by the author(s). Distributed under a Creative Commons CC BY license.