B-type natriuretic peptide-guided heart failure therapy

Category Structured summary of systematic reviews
JournalDatabase of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE)
Year 2010
CRD SUMMARY: This review compared the effect of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP)-guided drug therapy with usual care in patients with chronic heart failure. The authors concluded that BNP-guided therapy reduced all-cause mortality, especially in patients younger than 75 years. This was a reasonably well-conducted review, but the uncertain quality of included trials and concerns regarding generalisability warrant some cautious interpretation.
Epistemonikos ID: 0cd90910800633e5e230a8853ef9631e950dddcd
First added on: Jan 04, 2012