Heart failure diagnosis: Impacts of atrial fibrillation on the diagnostic marker NT-proBNP.
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- Record sourced from PubMed, PMID 41171700.
- Also identified by DOI 10.1371/journal.pmed.1004782 and PMC identifier 12578210.
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Abstract
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.
Medical subject headings
- Atrial Fibrillation
- Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
- Heart Failure
- Peptide Fragments