Journal article
The inclusion of N-terminal pro-brain natriuretic peptide in a sensitive screening strategy for systemic sclerosis-related pulmonary arterial hypertension: a cohort study
Vivek Thakkar, Wendy Stevens, David Prior, Peter Youssef, Danny Liew, Eli Gabbay, Janet Roddy, Jennifer G Walker, Jane Zochling, Joanne Sahhar, Peter Nash, Susan Lester, Maureen Rischmueller, Susanna M Proudman, Mandana Nikpour
ARTHRITIS RESEARCH & THERAPY | BMC | Published : 2013
DOI: 10.1186/ar4383
Grants
Awarded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Scholarship
Funding Acknowledgements
We wish to thank the following people for assistance with sample preparation and data collection: Edmund Lau, Tamera Corte, Alison Batty, Kerry Cooper, Kathleen Elford, Dot Fowler, Barbara Gemmell, Trish Lewis, Helen Marsden, Leah McWilliams and Bev Wilson. We wish to thanks the patients who participated in this study and St Vincent's Hospital Melbourne IT department for their expert advice and continued support of the Australian Scleroderma Cohort Study and Database. Dr Thakkar was funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia Scholarship (APP 1038612) and The Australian Scleroderma Interest Group Clinical Research Fellowship. Dr Nikpour holds a David Bickart Clinician Research Fellowship from the University of Melbourne Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences. Other sources of funding include Scleroderma Australia, Arthritis Australia, St Vincent's Research Endowment Foundation, Pfizer (including a Pfizer CardioVascular Lipid research grant), Actelion Australia, Bayer, CSL Biotherapies and GlaxoSmithKline Australia.