The authors found that female gender, in addition to diastolic function, is an independent predictor of brain natriuretic peptide levels in the elderly without systolic ventricular dysfunction.

Assessment of brain natriuretic peptide levels may provide important information that can be used in the evaluation of patients with dyspnea and follow-up of heart failure. Brain natriuretic ...

the walls indeed do stretch from the increased cardiac pressures resulting in high serum levels of BNP. Nesiritide is a recombinant form of B-type natriuretic peptide and is used for the treatment ...

And what role do the plasma levels of BNP play with regard to the ... We hypothesized that high plasma BNP concentrations on d 2 are associated with the need for subsequent PDA intervention.

Now researchers think NPY should be tested alongside the hormone currently used to diagnose heart failure, B-type natriuretic Peptide (BNP ... measuring for very high levels neuropeptide Y ...