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This study was supported by grant #R01 HL071506from the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health(NIH), and by grant #M01-RR02719from the National Center for Research Resources(NCRR), a component of NIH, and NIH Roadmap for Medical Research.
Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official view of the NCRR or NIH. Information on NCRR is available at http://www.ncrr.nih.gov/. Information on Re-engineering the Clinical Research Enterprise can be obtained from http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinical research/overview-translational.asp.
This study was supported, in part, by the Intramural Research Program of the National Institute on Aging, NIH, a portion of which was through a Research and Development Contract with MedStar Research Institute. The BNP assays were provided by Biosite, Inc., San Diego, California.
Drs. Najjar and Gottlieb contributed equally to this paper.