For heart failure admission, using a fixed‐effect model, the result grouping the trials by BNP (Anguita 2010; Jourdain 2007; Karlstrom 2011; Krupicka 2010), or NT‐ProBNP (Berger 2010; Januzzi 2011; Lainchbury 2010; Schou 2013; Skvortsov 2015; Troughton 2000) did not make a difference to the main findings (BNP: RR 0.70, 95% CI 0.56 to 0.87; participants = 600; studies = 4; NT‐proBNP: RR 0.70, 95% CI 0.59 to 0.84; participants = 1328; studies 6) Analysis 7.3. Here, NPPB is linked to heart failure.