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ReviewThe Journal of international medical research2024

Clinical markers in heart failure: a narrative review.

Nismat Javed, Markos El-Far, Timothy J Vittorio

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Review in The Journal of international medical research, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3 authors.

Nismat JavedDepartment of Medicine, BronxCare Health System/BronxCare Hospital Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-8756-927X
Markos El-FarAmerican University of the Caribbean, Department of Medicine, Sint Maarten, West Indies.
Timothy J VittorioDepartment of Medicine, BronxCare Health System/BronxCare Hospital Center, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3696-5632

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heart failure is a complex clinical syndrome that is one of the causes of high mortality worldwide. Additionally, healthcare systems around the world are also being burdened by the aging population and subsequently, increasing estimates of patients with heart failure. As a result, it is crucial to determine novel ways to reduce the healthcare costs, rate of hospitalizations and mortality. In this regard, clinical biomarkers play a very important role in stratifying risk, determining prognosis or diagnosis and monitoring patient responses to therapy. This narrative review discusses the wide spectrum of clinical biomarkers, novel inventions of new techniques, their advantages and limitations as well as applications. As heart failure rates increase, cost-effective diagnostic tools such as B-type natriuretic peptide and N-terminal pro b-type natriuretic peptide are crucial, with emerging markers like neprilysin and cardiac imaging showing promise, though larger studies are needed to confirm their effectiveness compared with traditional markers.

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BiomarkersHeart FailureNatriuretic Peptide, BrainHumansNeprilysinPeptide FragmentsPrognosisBiomarkersNatriuretic Peptide, BrainNeprilysinPeptide Fragmentspro-brain natriuretic peptide (1-76)biomarkersdiagnosishealthcare costHeart failuremonitoringprognosistreatment

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PMID38779976
PMCPMC11119339

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