Diagnostic properties of natriuretic peptides and opportunities for personalized thresholds for detecting heart failure in primary care

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OBJECTIVES: Heart failure (HF) is a prevalent syndrome with considerable disease burden, healthcare utilization and costs. Timely diagnosis is essential to improve outcomes. This study aimed to compare the diagnostic performance of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) and N-terminal proBNP (NT-proBNP) in detecting HF in primary care. Our second aim was to explore if personalized thresholds (using age, sex, or other readily available parameters) would further improve diagnostic accuracy over universal thresholds.

METHODS: A retrospective study was performed among patients without prior HF who underwent natriuretic peptide (NP) testing in the Amsterdam General Practice Network between January 2011 and December 2021. HF incidence was based on registration out to 90 days after NP testing. Diagnostic accuracy was evaluated with AUROC, sensitivity and specificity based on guideline-recommended thresholds (125 ng/L for NT-proBNP and 35 ng/L for BNP). We used inverse probability of treatment weighting to adjust for confounding.

RESULTS: A total of 15,234 patients underwent NP testing, 6,870 with BNP (4.5 % had HF), and 8,364 with NT-proBNP (5.7 % had HF). NT-proBNP was more accurate than BNP, with an AUROC of 89.9 % (95 % CI: 88.4-91.2) vs. 85.9 % (95 % CI 83.5-88.2), with higher sensitivity (95.3 vs. 89.7 %) and specificity (59.1 vs. 58.0 %). Differentiating NP cut-off by clinical variables modestly improved diagnostic accuracy for BNP and NT-proBNP compared with a universal threshold.

CONCLUSIONS: NT-proBNP outperforms BNP for detecting HF in primary care. Personalized instead of universal diagnostic thresholds led to modest improvement.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:10

Enthalten in:

Diagnosis (Berlin, Germany) - 10(2023), 4 vom: 01. Nov., Seite 432-439

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Harskamp, Ralf E [VerfasserIn]
De Clercq, Lukas [VerfasserIn]
Veelers, Lieke [VerfasserIn]
Schut, Martijn C [VerfasserIn]
van Weert, Henk C P M [VerfasserIn]
Handoko, M Louis [VerfasserIn]
Moll van Charante, Eric P [VerfasserIn]
Himmelreich, Jelle C L [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

114471-18-0
Biomarker
Cardiovascular medicine
Diagnostics
Heart failure
Journal Article
Natriuretic Peptide, Brain
Natriuretic Peptides

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Date Completed 29.11.2023

Date Revised 29.11.2023

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1515/dx-2023-0089

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM361652674