Using heart biomarker levels to guide therapy does not improve outcomes for heart failure patients

Wednesday, January 28, 2009 - 14:07 in Health & Medicine

Using a measure of the hormone N-terminal brain natriuretic peptide (BNP) to guide therapy for older patients with heart failure did not improve overall clinical or quality of life outcomes compared to patients receiving conventional symptom-guided therapy, according to a study in the 28 January issue of JAMA...

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