Natriuretic peptide testing and heart failure diagnosis in primary care: diagnostic accuracy study

HIGHLIGHTS

• who: Clare J Taylor et al. from the Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) have published the paper: Natriuretic peptide testing and heart failure diagnosis in primary care: diagnostic accuracy study, in the Journal: (JOURNAL) of 31/Dec/2018

SUMMARY

Heart failure (HF) affects around 1 million people in the UK and accounts for 3%-4% of NHS expenditure. Natriuretic peptides (NPs) are released by the myocardium in response to pressure or fluid overload and act on both the vasculature to relax smooth muscle and on the kidney to induce diuresis.6 . . .

 



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