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Gender-Specific Risk Stratification With B-Type Natriuretic Peptide Levels in Patients With Acute Dyspnea

Insights From the B-type Natriuretic Peptide for Acute Shortness of Breath Evaluation Study

Department of Internal Medicine, Medical Division A, University Hospital, Basel, Switzerland

View larger version (18K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 1 Survival in 190 female and 262 male patients presenting with acute dyspnea (log-rank test for comparison of curves).

View larger version (22K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 2 Survival in women and men with B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels >500 pg/ml (log-rank test for comparison of curves).

View larger version (22K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 3 Receiver-operating characteristic curves analyzing the ability of B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels to predict death in women and men. Area under the receiver operating characteristics curve (AUC) with 95% confidence intervals (CI) are given.

View larger version (23K): [in this window] [in a new window] [Download PPT slide]   Figure 4 Survival in women and men with B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP) levels >500 pg/ml and cardiac (left) or non-cardiac (right) causes of acute dyspnea (log-rank test for comparison of curves).