Reference Change Values for Brain Natriuretic Peptides Revisited
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Reference change values for brain natriuretic peptides revisited.
To the Editor: In 2004, Bruins et al. (1 ) published a report in which they used the approach of Harris and Yasaka (2 ) to determine the reference change values (RCVs) for B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP). Week-toweek RCVs were 113% and 98%, respectively, meaning that concentrations had to increase or decrease by these percentages to be assessed as different fr...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Chemistry
سال: 2006
ISSN: 0009-9147,1530-8561
DOI: 10.1373/clinchem.2006.069369