Implications of serial measurements of natriuretic peptides in heart failure: insights from BIOSTAT-CHF

Affiliations

• ¹ Department of Cardiovascular Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre, Leicester, UK.
• ² IRCCS SDN, Diagnostic and Nuclear Research Institute, Naples, Italy.
• ³ Department of Cardiology, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
• ⁴ Department of Cardiology, National Heart Centre, Singapore, Singapore.
• ⁵ Department of Clinical Epidemiology, Biostatistics & Bioinformatics, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
• ⁶ Division of Cardiology and Metabolism - Heart Failure, Cachexia & Sarcopenia, Department of Cardiology (CVK); and Berlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT); Deutsches Zentrum für Herz-Kreislauf-Forschung (DZHK) Berlin, Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
• ⁷ Department of Cardiology and Pneumology, University Medical Center Göttingen (UMG), Göttingen, Germany.
• ⁸ National Heart & Lung Institute, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, Imperial College, London, UK.
• ⁹ Stavanger University Hospital, Stavanger, Norway.
• ¹⁰ University of Bergen, Bergen, Norway.
• ¹¹ Institute of Cardiology, Department of Medical and Surgical Specialties, Radiological Sciences and Public Health, University of Brescia, Brescia, Italy.