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)
Common reasons for increased BNP levels include: 1  high blood pressure. 2  lung infections, such as pneumonia. 3  asthma attacks.  medications that cause water or sodium retention (such as ActosÂ® and AvandiaÂ®, which are commonly prescribed for pre-diabetes and diabetes)