Background: There is wide variability of visit-to-visit (V2V) B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF), even when they are stable. The prognostic significance of V
*Missing individuals had less than 3 measurements due to undetectable levels †Standard deviation divided by mean Abbreviations: sCD14 = soluble cluster of differentiation 14; CRP = C-reactive protein;
For sAA and sIgA, the crude LoA are shown whereas for testosterone, cortisol and sTNFαRII, the back transformed LoA after the 10 base log-transformation are shown as functions of the average of the tw
Urine is a readily and noninvasively obtainable body fluid. Mass spectrometry (MS)-based proteomics has shown that urine contains thousands of proteins. Urine is a potential source of biomarkers for d