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)
2001 - The FDA has approved the Triage BNP blood test by Biosite Diagnostics for early diagnosis of CHF in people age 55 years and older. The test measures levels of BNP (B-type natriuretic peptide) in your blood.t measures levels of BNP or B-type natriuretic peptide. Levels of this hormone are very high in people with acute heart failure. Doctors have often been wrong when faced with a person having CHF, calling it asthma, respiratory infection, pneumonia, or gallstones.