Your levels and their meaning also will depend on other factors, including your: Age Sex Other health conditions Family history Your weight Medicines Other test results Normal BNP level If your levels are in a
the result being an increase in blood volume. Perhaps the adaptation would lead to increased stroke volume from increased venous return, but that is not conjectured. However, at equilibrium, one would
Test samples are normally biological samples derived from serum, plasma, whole blood or other bodily fluids (normally from a human patient). The levels of at least one human natriuretic peptide in the test sample is quantified in the immunoassay.For example, U.S. Pat. No. 6,162,902 (herei...
cardiomyopathy [35], the modest placebo-subtracted effect of DPP-4i on NT-proBNP reduction we observe in CKD patients had very low statistical power, was no longer significant after adjusting for multiple testing, and is unlikely to be of any clinical meaning, as NT-proBNP is not biologically...