Heart murmur and N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide as predictors of death in 2977 consecutive hospitalized patients

American Journal of the Medical Sciences

Volumn 335, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 444-450

  Iversen, Kasper ^a,c   Nielsen, Olav Wendelboe ^a   Kirk, Vibeke ^b   Morten, B A Y ^b   Hassager, Christian ^a   Boesgaard, Soren ^a   Nielsen, Henrik ^b  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b AMAGER HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINO TERMINAL PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1 76); PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1-76);

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CARDIOVASCULAR RISK; DEATH; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMUR; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PREDICTOR VARIABLE; PROGNOSIS; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; VALVULAR HEART DISEASE; BLOOD; HOSPITALIZATION; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURVIVAL; TIME;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ECHOCARDIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HEART AUSCULTATION; HEART MURMURS; HEART VALVE DISEASES; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROGNOSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 47749142818     PISSN: 00029629     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/MAJ.0b013e318157d3a2     Document Type: Article

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