Prevalence, Progression, and Prognosis of Heart Stress In the Community: Implications for Heart Failure Prevention - PubMed
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- Heart stress is defined by age-specific NT-proBNP elevations in asymptomatic individuals and is an emerging pre-heart failure concept.
- In the ARIC study, 12.1% had prevalent heart stress, and 12.3% developed incident heart stress over 6 years, both linked to higher risks of all-cause death and heart failure hospitalization.
- Persistent heart stress posed the greatest risk, while remission was associated with lower mortality risk, with consistent findings validated in the MESA study.