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Hospitalization and medical cost of patients with elevated serum N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide levels

BACKGROUND: Patients with heart failure (HF) are reportedly at high risk for ‘all-cause’ re-hospitalization. A biomarker for HF, N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), enables to simply detect patients with possible HF (pHF). We examined the hospitalization and medical cost of Japanes...

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Autores principales: Kitagawa, Toshiro, Oda, Noboru, Mizukawa, Mariko, Hidaka, Takayuki, Naka, Makiko, Nakayama, Susumu, Kihara, Yasuki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755927/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29304158
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190979