Importance of NT-proBNP and conventional risk factors for prediction of death in older adults with and without diabetes mellitus- A report from the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) study

Affiliations

• ¹ Cardiovascular Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Internal Medicine and Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Norrköping, Sweden.
• ² Cardiovascular Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
• ³ Faculdade Ciências Médicas de Minas Gerais, Fundação Educacional Lucas Machado, Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
• ⁴ Department of Medicine and Center for Cardiometabolic Disease Prevention, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA.
• ⁵ Cardiovascular Medicine and Geriatrics Sections, Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston-Salem, NC, USA.
• ⁶ Department of Medicine, University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, USA.
• ⁷ Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA.
• ⁸ Cardiovascular Division, Brigham & Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].