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)
1 An allergic reaction to the blood received during a transfusion can also cause the levels of bilirubin to rise in adults. 2  Cirrhosis of the liver is another reason for elevated bilirubin levels. 3  Acute hepatitis caused by Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B is another reason.  Hemolysis - red blood cell destruction.