How obesity affects the cut-points for B-type natriuretic peptide in the diagnosis of acute heart failure: Results from the Breathing Not Properly Multinational Study
- 31 May 2006
- journal article
- Published by Elsevier in American Heart Journal
- Vol. 151 (5), 999-1005
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ahj.2005.10.011
Abstract
No abstract availableKeywords
This publication has 26 references indexed in Scilit:
- Primary results of the Rapid Emergency Department Heart Failure Outpatient Trial (REDHOT)Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2004
- Impact of Obesity on Plasma Natriuretic Peptide LevelsCirculation, 2004
- N -Terminal Pro–Brain Natriuretic Peptide and Other Risk Markers for the Separate Prediction of Mortality and Subsequent Myocardial Infarction in Patients With Unstable Coronary Artery DiseaseCirculation, 2003
- Heart failure in the general population of men - morbidity, risk factors and prognosisJournal of Internal Medicine, 2001
- Natriuretic peptides: a new lipolytic pathway in human adipocytesThe FASEB Journal, 2000
- Effect of weight loss on left ventricular mass in nonhypertensive morbidly obese patientsThe American Journal of Cardiology, 1994
- A Prospective Study of Obesity and Risk of Coronary Heart Disease in WomenNew England Journal of Medicine, 1990
- Myocardial contractility and left ventricular function in obese patients with essential hypertensionThe American Journal of Cardiology, 1988
- Considerations in the use of echocardiography in epidemiology. The Framingham Study.Hypertension, 1987
- Obesity as an independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease: a 26-year follow-up of participants in the Framingham Heart Study.Circulation, 1983