Heart failure diagnosis: Impacts of atrial fibrillation on the diagnostic marker NT-proBNP.

A recent PLOS Medicine study shows that atrial fibrillation lowers the specificity of the biomarker NT-proBNP for heart failure. Adjusted thresholds and better echocardiography access are therefore required for NT-proBNP to remain as a high negative predictive value rule-out test in primary care.

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Principais autores:	Yang Chen, Garry McDowell, Gregory Y H Lip
Formato:	Artigo
Idioma:	Inglês
Publicado em:	Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2025-10-01
coleção:	PLoS Medicine
Acesso em linha:	https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1004782
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