Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 93-98 , February 2010

Prognosis of Stage A or B Heart Failure Patients With Elevated B-type Natriuretic Peptide Levels

  • Lori B. Daniels, MD, MAS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Lori B. Daniels, MD, MAS, Mail Code 0986, 9350 Campus Point Dr., Suite 1D, La Jolla, CA 92037-1300. Tel: (858) 775-9214; Fax: (858) 657-8021.
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  • Paul Clopton, MS

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
    • Veteran's Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA
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  • Kevin Jiang, BS

      Affiliations

    • Veteran's Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA
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  • Barry Greenberg, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
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  • Alan S. Maisel, MD

      Affiliations

    • Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
    • Veteran's Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, La Jolla, CA

Received 21 April 2009 ,Revised 26 September 2009 ,Accepted 8 October 2009.

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 Supported in part by a grant from the American College of Cardiology/Guidant Foundation, Bethesda, MD (L.B.D.). Abbott Inc. supplied the reagents for analyzing the biomarkers for this report, but had no input into data acquisition, data analysis, manuscript preparation, or any other aspect of the study. A.S.M. has received research grants from Abbott, Roche, and Bayer, and is a consultant for Biosite. L.B.D. has received research support from Roche and Biosite; there are no other conflicts of interest to report.

PII: S1071-9164(09)01130-0

doi: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2009.10.020

Journal of Cardiac Failure
Volume 16, Issue 2 , Pages 93-98 , February 2010

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