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Can BNP-guided therapy improve health-related quality of life, and do responders to BNP-guided heart failure treatment have improved health-related quality of life? Results from the UPSTEP study

BACKGROUND: To investigate whether B-type natriuretic peptide (NP)-guided treatment of heart failure (HF) patients improved their health related quality of life (Hr-QoL) compared to routine HF treatment, and whether changes in Hr-QoL differed depending on whether the patient was a responder to NP-gu...

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Autores principales: Karlström, Patric, Johansson, Peter, Dahlström, Ulf, Boman, Kurt, Alehagen, Urban
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4763442/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26905220
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12872-016-0221-7