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 ...

Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) stimulates natriuretic peptide receptor-A (NPR-A) and increases intracellular cGMP. We examined the changes in ANP and NPR-A in respiratory epithelium during the ...

Background and aims N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) is a well-established biomarker in clinical practice, particularly for heart failure, but its role in predicting atrial ...

1 Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Objective To determine the potential role of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide ... raised NT-proBNP level such as HF ...

The hit show Severance can be refashioned as a teaching moment about certain brain disorders. But its famed “Innie” versus “Outie” conceit is totally bogus ...

In the United States, heart attacks, which are clinically known as myocardial infarctions, affect approximately 805,000 ...

Researchers found that a high dose of creatine improved cognitive performance and stabilized energy levels in the brain during a night without sleep. The findings also challenge the long-held ...

The MBs are gas-filled, lipid coated microbubbles, similar to liposomes, and are typically 2–5 μm in diameter, slightly smaller than the diameter of capillaries in the brain (about 7–8 μm in humans) ...

Formula 1 footage without postproduction The scientists pinpointed the "ventral lateral geniculate nucleus" (vLGN) as the brain region responsible for this built-in high-tech video optimization ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has defined High Cholesterol as a serious state wherein the actual (total) cholesterol level of of the blood ranges between 5.0 mmol/L (190 mg/dL) or higher ...