Table 4.

BNP in the diagnoses of CHD.

References	Disease	n	Age	BNP cutoff value (pg/ml)	Sensitivity (%)	Specificity (%)
Law et al. (88)	Cardiovascular diseases	42	0–7 d	170	94	73
Cantinotti et al. (89)	CHD	152	0–3 d	417	84	66
			4–30 d	206	91	80
Cantinotti et al. (90)	CHD	218	0–4 d	363.5	78	87
			5–30 d	109.5	94	92
Davlouros et al. (33)	hsLtR* CHD	75	12 h or 2 d	132.5	93.1	100

^*hsLtR, hemodynamically significant Left to Right shunts.