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)
NT-proBNP and BNP levels may also be elevated in acute PE. Although elevations are not diagnostic for PE, high levels are predictive of a worsened prognosis, particularly when in conjunction with elevated troponin levels. In about 20% of patients with pulmonary disease, natriuretic peptide levels are elevated.