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Background: Red blood cell distribution width (RDW), a routine and inexpensive blood parameter, is widely available and may serve as a useful screening marker for heart failure (HF).This study aims to evaluate RDW's predictive value for new-onset HF in the general population and examine its incremental predictive performance alongside NT-proBNP.
Noordermeer et al. (Fri,) studied this question.