While low brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) values have been shown to improve diagnostic accuracy by excluding congestive heart failure in acute dyspnea, the meaning of excessively elevated BNP is not clear. This is a retrospective analysis of clinical, echocardiographic, and laboratory data in patients...
BNP-guided vs symptom-guided heart failure therapy: the Trial of Intensified vs Standard Medical Therapy in Elderly Patients With Congestive Heart Failure (TIME-CHF) randomized trial. JAMA. 2009;301(4):383-392.ArticlePubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 10. Berger R, Moertl D, Peter S, et al. N...
MeaningThese results suggest that novel diagnostic DBS tests performed well in comparison with existing screening methods for CHD, warranting prospective evaluation to improve early diagnosis of even asymptomatic cases. Abstract ImportanceCongenital heart disease (CHD) is the most common human organ malforma...
“In the event of a sell-off, high levels of margin debt can encourage additional selling, which could, in turn, lead to a more rapid tightening of financial conditions,” he mused. The growth in margin debt has far outpaced the growth of the S&P 500 index in recent years. The chart...
First, the printability and printing resolution of the pneumatic actuation method were limited by the viscosity of the silicone ink. In general, a higher viscosity will hamper the smoothness of the ink as it is extruded, meaning a finer filament cannot be obtained. Second, this proposed heating...
Without loss of generality, we assume that the PCMs are complete; meaning that all paired comparisons have been made. If some of the (i,j) comparisons are missing, the proposed methodology could be analogously adapted, as shown in reference [16]. Let G = {G1, . . . , Gm} be a ...
Analogously, antagonism represents a combined treatment effect that is less than the additive effect, meaning that the combined components oppose each other [49]. For any two given drugs, the quality of synergism, antagonism, or additivity is highly dependent on the relative and absolute ...