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)
Preserved Systolic Function (PSF) Heart Failure. Diastolic myocardial dysfunction, also known as PSF, is the cause of HF in as many of 50% of cases and is also associat-. ed with high BNP (29,30). BNP has been found to be approximately half as high in PSF as in cases of systolic dysfunction (31). Obesity.