September 14, 2005Circulation
ACC/AHA 2005 Guideline Update for the Diagnosis and Management of Chronic Heart Failure in the Adult—Summary Article
Population
Adults with chronic heart failure
Design
Guideline
Authors
Discussion
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Implication
Clinicians may use either BNP or NT-proBNP assay for heart failure assessment; confirms equivalence in the 2005 ACC/AHA guidelines.
Structured PICO
P
Population
Adults with chronic heart failure
I
Intervention
B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) or N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) assays
The 2005 ACC/AHA guideline update clarifies that both BNP and NT-proBNP assays provide clinically similar information for the assessment of chronic heart failure.
Cite This Study
Hunt et al. (2005) studied this question.