Population
88 healthy pregnant women admitted to the delivery room, mean age 30.5 years, mean gestational age 39.5 weeks.
Design
Cohort
Follow-up
within 28 hours after delivery
Authors
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Postpartum NT-proBNP rise may mark normal adaptation; hypothesis-generating for biomarker thresholds in peripartum cardiomyopathy.
NT-proBNP concentrations double in the early postpartum period compared to predelivery levels in healthy women, suggesting a role in postpartum diuresis and volume adaptation.
Lev‐Sagie et al. (2005) studied this question.
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