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Does discharge BNP predict 1-year mortality and/or rehospitalization better than admission or change in BNP in older patients hospitalized with heart failure?
Does discharge BNP predict 1-year mortality and/or rehospitalization better than admission or change in BNP in older patients hospitalized with heart failure?
Discharge BNP is the most predictive BNP metric for 1-year mortality and rehospitalization in older patients hospitalized with heart failure.
May inform post-discharge risk models in older HF patients; leaves open prospective validation of clinical impact.
Discharge BNP best predicts 1-year mortality and/or rehospitalization among older patients hospitalized with heart failure. Discharge BNP plus clinical variables modestly improves risk classification and model discrimination for long-term outcomes.
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Kociol et al. (2011) studied this question.
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