Diagnostic accuracy of plasma NT-proBNP levels for excluding cardiac abnormalities in the very elderly

BMC Geriatrics

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Vaes, Bert ^a   Delgado, Victoria ^b   Bax, Jeroen ^b   Degryse, Jan ^a   Westendorp, Rudi Gj ^b   Gussekloo, Jacobijn ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PRO BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1 76); PRO-BRAIN NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE (1-76);

AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; PROSPECTIVE STUDY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; NATRIURETIC PEPTIDE, BRAIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 78149336706     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2318-10-85     Document Type: Article

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