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Incidence of Atrial Fibrillation in Persons with Very High Serum Levels of N-Terminal Pro-B-Type Natriuretic Peptide: The Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis

OBJECTIVE: While persons in the upper fourth or fifth of the distribution of serum levels of N-terminal pro-B type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP) are at a sharply increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation, their absolute risk of this condition (about 20 per 1000 per year) is not clearly high...

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Autores principales: Weiss, Noel S, Perez Trejo, Esther, Kronmal, Richard, Lima, Joao, Heckbert, Susan R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8039022/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33854380
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/CLEP.S303560