Elevated plasma levels of adropin in heart failure patients

【摘要】：正Objective To investigate plasma adropin levels in patients with HF and evaluated the relationship between those levels and the severity of HF.Methods The study group comprised 56 patients with HF and 20 control subjects.Plasma adropin, brain natriuretic peptide(BNP) and cardiac hemodynamics were determined.Results Plasma adropin levels were significantly increased according to the severity of NYHA class in the patients with HF(P0.010).Similarly,plasma BNP levels