The authors found that female gender, in addition to diastolic function, is an independent predictor of brain natriuretic peptide levels in the elderly without systolic ventricular dysfunction.

Assessment of brain natriuretic peptide levels may provide important information that can be used in the evaluation of patients with dyspnea and follow-up of heart failure. Brain natriuretic ...

The device has evolved from one aimed at just functional MR to a broader HF therapy. EMPOWER will provide more insights.

Atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) stimulates natriuretic peptide receptor-A (NPR-A) and increases intracellular cGMP. We examined the changes in ANP and NPR-A in respiratory epithelium during the ...

1 Primary Care Clinical Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK Objective To determine the potential role of N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide ... raised NT-proBNP level such as HF ...

In the United States, heart attacks, which are clinically known as myocardial infarctions, affect approximately 805,000 Americans each year according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and ...

Researchers found that a high dose of creatine improved cognitive performance and stabilized energy levels in the brain during a night without sleep. The findings also challenge the long-held ...

Formula 1 footage without postproduction The scientists pinpointed the "ventral lateral geniculate nucleus" (vLGN) as the brain region responsible for this built-in high-tech video optimization ...

The MBs are gas-filled, lipid coated microbubbles, similar to liposomes, and are typically 2–5 μm in diameter, slightly smaller than the diameter of capillaries in the brain (about 7–8 μm in humans) ...

However, fluoxetine-pretreated animals had lower levels of other markers of cardiac damage, such as brain natriuretic peptide (BNP), a heart failure biomarker, and creatine kinase, a biomarker for ...

Decreased blood flow to the brain can also cause a stroke. Diabetes is linked to an increased risk of stroke and higher rates of mortality from stroke. Diabetic eye diseases can largely be prevented ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO), has defined High Cholesterol as a serious state wherein the actual (total) cholesterol level of of the blood ranges between 5.0 mmol/L (190 mg/dL) or higher ...