Plasma brain natriuretic peptide measured in stable conditions is related to mortality in frail and very old patients

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 57, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 365-366

  Lebourgeois, Franck ^a   Bussy, Caroline ^a   Myara, Jacques ^a   Golmard, Jean Louis ^b   Piette, François ^a   Belmin, Joël ^a  

^a HÔPITAL CHARLES FOIX   (France)

^b PITIÉ SALPÊTRIÈRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE;

AGING; FRAIL ELDERLY; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; LETTER; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PREVALENCE; SURVIVAL;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FRAIL ELDERLY; HUMANS; MALE; MORTALITY; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PROGNOSIS;

EID: 58849159180     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2009.02078.x     Document Type: Letter

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