So an apple is better than its juice, raw apple juice is better than cooked apple juice you buy in stores, cooked juice better than reconstituted and cooked juice and reconstituted apple juice better than some random sweet 'juice' that happens to taste like apples made in a laboratory made from bacterial excretions and so on.
Conditions associated with elevated BNP other than CHF are as follows: 1  Acute renal failure and chronic renal failure. 2  Hypertension (HTN) 3  Pulmonary diseases such as pulmonary hypertension, severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, pulmonary embolism, adult respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
Berger and his colleagues have done a commendable job in cementing the role of BNP as a prognostic marker for sudden, presumably arrhythmic death in CHF. Following 452 patients with ejection fractions <35% for up to 3 years, they found that the BNP level was the only independent predictor of sudden death.