Why the study?
Does BNP concentration correlate with the severity of diastolic dysfunction in patients with diastolic heart failure?
Does BNP concentration correlate with the severity of diastolic dysfunction in patients with diastolic heart failure?
BNP levels correlate with the severity of diastolic dysfunction, providing diagnostic value despite being generally lower than in systolic heart failure.
May aid staging of diastolic dysfunction in HF; hypothesis-generating and should not yet change practice.
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Eroğlu et al. (2008) studied this question.
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