Serum Catestatin Expression and Cardiometabolic Parameters in Patients With Congestive Heart Failure

Exclusion Criteria

• •Age criteria:
• •* Persons below legal age (\<18 years)
• •* Adults younger than 35 years of age
• •* Adults older than 90 years of age
• •Participants with following conditions:
• •* Diabetes mellitus type I
• •* Documented or newly-established severe valvular or pericardial disease
• •* Infiltrative or hypertrophic cardiomyopathy
• •* Primary pulmonary disease or cor pulmonale
• •* Active malignant disease and/or active infectious disease
• •* Significant systemic autoimmune disease
• •* A positive history of excessive alcohol, drug, narcotics, and sedative consumption
• •* Significant psychiatric or neurologic condition
• •* Immunocompromised patients or patients that are under immunosuppressive treatment
• •* Significant liver or renal insufficiency (primary renal or hepatic disease)
• •* Hemorrhagic diathesis or significant coagulopathy
• •* Positive recent history of cancer chemotherapeutic drug use
• •* A positive history of acute coronary syndrome or stroke within 3 months prior to study enrollment