Kanagala, Prathap http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6739-5607
Arnold, Jayanth R.
Cheng, Adrian S. H.
Singh, Anvesha
Khan, Jamal N.
Gulsin, Gaurav S.
Yang, Jing
Zhao, Lei
Gupta, Pankaj
Squire, Iain B.
Ng, Leong L.
McCann, Gerry P.
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Leicester Cardiovascular Biomedical Research Centre (Overall project Grant: IRS_BRU_0211_20033)
John and Lucille Van Geest Foundation
National Institute for Health Research (PDF-2011-0451)
National Institute for Health Research (CDF 2014-07-045)
Article History
Received: 7 May 2019
Accepted: 31 July 2019
First Online: 10 August 2019
Compliance with ethical standards
:
: Lei Zhao and Jing Yang are employees of Bristol Myers Squibb which facilitated plasma NTpro-ANP analysis. All other authors declare that they have no competing interests relevant to this study. All authors also state that they have full control of all primary data and that they agree to allow the journal to review their data if requested.
: The study was approved by the United Kingdom National Research Ethics Service Committee East Midlands – Nottingham (reference: 12/EM/0222). Informed consent was obtained from all individual participants included in the study. The study was performed in accordance with the ethical standards laid down in the 1964 Declaration of Helsinki and its later amendments.