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)
Description: This test measures the amount of Brain Natriuretic Peptide or BNP in the blood. BNP is produced by the heart. Elevated levels of BNP often indicate the heart is working harder than normal such as when a person is suffering from heart failure. This test can be ordered when someone is experiencing symptoms such as difficulty breathing or swelling in the arms and legs which may be due to heart failure.