Natriuretic peptides are hormones with a range of key functions vital for regulating cardiometabolic health, including regulating blood pressure, blood sugar levels, and increasing utilization of ...

Portugal: Researchers have found in a new study that obesity may mask heart failure by lowering NT-proBNP levels. Obesity was ...

Natriuretic peptides, principally B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and its N-terminal fragment (NT-proBNP), are cardiac‐derived hormones released in response to ventricular wall stress. They promote ...

While B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels remain high in patients with end-stage heart failure with cardiogenic shock, these levels lose their prognostic value in patients using ventricular assist ...

In the urgent-care setting, determining the cause of dyspnea has been difficult because traditional, subjective methods of distinguishing heart failure from pulmonary conditions leave a high level of ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I am an 86-year-old woman with a diagnosis of heart failure. My B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) level is getting higher again, up to over 2,000 pg/mL. It was once 6,000 pg/mL and was ...

Diastolic heart failure is common in the elderly, particularly women. Previous studies on the value of brain natriuretic peptide in diastolic dysfunction have been largely limited to male subjects.

BNP levels are sensitive to such other biological factors as age, gender, sex, weight, and renal function. BNP levels may be elevated in cases of acute MI, pulmonary embolism, and chronic obstructive ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cancer survivors with increased NT-proBNP levels had an elevated risk for all-cause and cardiac mortality.