THE ROLE OF BNP AND NT-PROBNP IN HEART FAILURE
Abstract:
An increasing prevalence of heart failure is seen in the general population and especially the
aging population in the last years. Biggest challenge for the future is not only slowing disease
progression, but even stopping the evolution of the heart failure, obtaining also an improvement in the
patient’s quality of life. Given the fact that heart failure is a progressive disease, the earlier the
diagnosis is established, the more are reduced the risk of complications and the mortality. For this
reason, it was felt the need to detect serum markers that correlate with a proper prognosis, NT-proBNP
being one of those
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