The ‘Peptide for Life’ Initiative: a call for action to provide equal access to the use of natriuretic peptides in the diagnosis of acute heart failure across Europe

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1Heart Institute, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain; 2CIBERCV, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Madrid, Spain; 3Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 4Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 5Baim Institute for Clinical Research, Boston, MA, USA; 6Cardiac Department, National University Hospital, Cardiovascular Research Institute, National University Heart Centre, National University Health System, Singapore; 7Christchurch Heart Institute, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand; 8Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Medical University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria; 9Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands; 10Institute of Life Sciences, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy; 11Fondazione Toscana ‘Gabriele Monasterio’, Pisa, Italy; 12Program of Cardiovascular Diseases, CIMA Universidad de Navarra, and Navarra Institute for Health Research (IdiSNA), Pamplona, Spain; 13Division of Nursing Sciences and Reproductive Health, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden; 14BHF Cardiovascular Research Centre, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK; 15Department of Cardiology and Cardiovascular Research Institute Basel (CRIB), University Hospital Basel, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 16Servicio de Cardiología, Hospital Clínico Universitario, INCLIVA, Universitat de Valencia, Valencia, Spain; 17Université de Lorraine, Centre d’Investigation Clinique Plurithématique 1433, Inserm U1116, CHRU de Nancy, F-CRIN INI-CRCT Network, Nancy, France; 18Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia; 19University and IRCCS San Raffaele, Rome, Italy; 20Monash University, Melbourne, Australia; 21University of Warwick, Coventry, UK; and 22Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Belgrade, Serbia