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BNP: soon to become a routine measure in the care of patients with heart failure? | Synapse

June 1, 2000Heart35 citationsOpen Access

BNP: soon to become a routine measure in the care of patients with heart failure?

MCMartín Cowie

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BNP: soon to become a routine measure in the care of patients with heart failure? Clinicians are increasingly using biochemical markers of disease to help diagnose and monitor disease states. Might B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) become the same to heart failure as thyroid function tests are to hypothyroidism?

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Martín Cowie (2000) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a7db481cecc27a187a1470c https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1136/heart.83.6.617

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