来自于日本的心脏病专家们发现,血浆脑钠素(BNP)水平增高是舒张性心力衰竭(DHF)患者或具有 DHF 风险的病人的主要特征。与高血压对照受试患者相比,具有急性肺水肿病史的 DHF 患者其BNP 水平明显增高。日本大阪大学 Kazuhiro Yamamoto 博士及其同事在近日出版的《美国心脏病学会杂志》(JACC)上刊文强调指出,目前对 DHF 的诊断标准尚未作出明确的界定。DHF 的诊断主要基于心力衰竭症状以及 Cardiologists from Japan have found that elevated plasma BNP levels are a hallmark of patients with diastolic heart failure (DHF) or those at risk of DHF. Compared with hypertensive control subjects, patients with DHF who had a history of acute pulmonary edema had significantly elevated BNP levels. Kazuhiro Yamamoto, Osaka University, Japan, and colleagues recently published an article in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology (JACC) emphasizing that the current diagnostic criteria for DHF have not yet been clearly defined. The diagnosis of DHF is based primarily on the symptoms of heart failure as well