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)
The BNP Test measures the blood level of BNP, or B-Type Natriuretic Peptide. BNP is a marker that is elevated in people with various forms of heart failure and hypertrophy. BNP levels are sometimes tracked to measure the response to therapies that lower blood pressure. This BNP Test is a blood test.