Does chronic hypoxemia increase ventricular brain natriuretic peptide precursors in neonatal swine?
Chronic hypoxemia alone, even in the absence of cardiac dysfunction, is sufficient to increase ventricular levels of pro-BNP. This finding may have implications for the interpretation of BNP levels in the clinical management of patients with cyanotic congenital heart disease.
The efficacy of twice-daily dosing of a repaglinide/metformin FDC tablet was non-inferior to that of three-times-daily dosing.