Association of Elevated NT-proBNP With Myocardial Fibrosis in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA) - Liu, Chia-Ying; Heckbert, Susan R.; Lai, Shenghan; Ambale-Venkatesh, Bharath; Ostovaneh, Mohammad R.; McClelland, Robyn L.; Lima, João A.C.; Bluemke, David A. (Journal of the American College of Cardiology, 2017)
Keywords: Age; Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Arteriosclerosis; Atherosclerosis; Atherosclerosis - blood; Atherosclerosis - diagnosis; Atherosclerosis - ethnology; Brain natriuretic peptide; Cardiology; Cardiomyopathies - blood; Cardiomyopathies - diagnosis; Cardiomyopathies - ethnology; Cardiovascular; Cardiovascular disease; Cardiovascular diseases; Diastole; ECV; Ethnicity; Female; Fibrosis; Fibrosis - blood; Fibrosis - diagnosis; Fibrosis - ethnology; Gadolinium; Health risk assessment; Heart; Heart diseases; Heart failure; Heart Ventricles - diagnostic imaging; Heart Ventricles - physiopathology; Humans; Hypertension; Incidence; Magnetic Resonance Imaging, Cine - methods; Male; Middle Aged; MR imaging; Myocardium - pathology; Natriuretic Peptide, Brain - blood; NT-proBNP; Peptide Fragments - blood; Peptides; Prognosis; Protein Precursors; Regression analysis; Risk factors; T1 mapping; United States - epidemiology; Variables; Ventricle; Ventricular Function, Left; United States; MR imaging; NT-proBNP; BNP; EDV; ECV; CMR; ESV; LV; LGE; T1 mapping; extracellular volume fraction; end-systolic volume; B-type natriuretic peptide; end-diastolic volume; late gadolinium enhancement; left ventricular; cardiac magnetic resonance; N-terminal pro–B-type natriuretic peptide