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SUBMITTER: Gallagher J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5789219 | biostudies-other | 2017 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Gallagher Joe J Watson Chris C Campbell Patricia P Ledwidge Mark M McDonald Kenneth K
Cardiac failure review 20171101 2
There is increasing interest in the concept of personalised medicine, whereby conditions with common pathophysiologies are targeted together, and also using biomarkers to identify patients who will most benefit from certain interventions. Several data sets indicate that natriuretic peptides are effective in refining risk prediction for heart failure and cardiovascular disease and add predictive power to conventional risk factors. To date two trials have tested the approach of using natriuretic p ...[more]