A recent PLOS Medicine study shows that atrial fibrillation lowers the specificity of the biomarker NT-proBNP for heart failure. Adjusted thresholds and better echocardiography access are therefore required for NT-proBNP to remain as a high negative predictive value rule-out test in primary care.
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