[Relation of natriuretic peptides (BNP, NT-proBNP) to total mortality. A 4-year follow-up of patients]. / Vztah natriuretických peptidu (BNP, NT-proBNP) k celkové mortalite. Ctyrleté sledování souboru nemocných.

The paper deals with a group of 157 patients followed for the period of four years in view of the relation of concentrations of BNP or NT-proBNP to overall mortality. In the introduction the authors describe their experience with natriuretic peptides; their own data follow. The Kaplan-Meier analysis of probability of survival proved to possess a strong predictive efficiency of the concentrations of BNP or NT-proBNP for overall mortality of the observed cohort.