Key result
Natriuretic peptides, particularly BNP and NTproBNP, have gained an increasingly important role in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure in elderly patients.
Why the study?
Elderly patients with heart failure are under-represented in clinical trials, creating a need for accessible biomarkers like natriuretic peptides for differential and early diagnosis given complex comorbidities and frailty.
BNP and NTproBNP are increasingly important for the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure in elderly patients, a population often complicated by comorbidities and under-represented in clinical trials.
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May support natriuretic peptide-guided care in elderly HF; leaves open dedicated prospective trials in comorbid populations.
Heart failure is one of the main morbidity and mortality factors in the general population and especially in elderly patients. Thus, at the European level, the prevalence of heart failure is 1% in people under 55 years of age but increases to over 10% in people over 70 years of age. The particularities of the elderly patient, which make the management of heart failure difficult, are the presence of comorbidities, frailty, cognitive impairment and polypharmacy. However, elderly patients are under-represented in clinical trials on the diagnosis and treatment of heart failure. The need for complementary methods (biomarkers) for differential and early diagnosis of heart failure is becoming more and more evident, even in its subclinical stages. These methods need to have increased specificity and sensitivity and be widely available. Natriuretic peptides, in particular B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and its fraction NTproBNP, have gained an increasingly important role in the screening, diagnosis and treatment of heart failure in recent years.
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Marinescu et al. (2023) conducted a review in Heart failure. Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) and NTproBNP was evaluated. Natriuretic peptides, particularly BNP and NTproBNP, have gained an increasingly important role in the screening, diagnosis, and treatment of heart failure in elderly patients.
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