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SUBMITTER: Nambi V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4208068 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Nambi Vijay V Liu Xiaoxi X Chambless Lloyd E LE de Lemos James A JA Virani Salim S SS Agarwal Sunil S Boerwinkle Eric E Hoogeveen Ron C RC Aguilar David D Astor Brad C BC Srinivas Pothur R PR Deswal Anita A Mosley Thomas H TH Coresh Josef J Folsom Aaron R AR Heiss Gerardo G Ballantyne Christie M CM
Clinical chemistry 20130913 12
<h4>Background</h4>Among the various cardiovascular diseases, heart failure (HF) is projected to have the largest increases in incidence over the coming decades; therefore, improving HF prediction is of significant value. We evaluated whether cardiac troponin T (cTnT) measured with a high-sensitivity assay and N-terminal pro-B-type natriuretic peptide (NT-proBNP), biomarkers strongly associated with incident HF, improve HF risk prediction in the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study.< ...[more]