NPPB and ST Elevation Myocardial Infarction: In a recent study of 1,093 Chinese patients with STEMI, Wang et al. [17] found that hs-CRP and NT-proBNP on admission reinforced the predictive power of the Korea Acute Myocardial Infarction Registry (KAMIR) score for long-term adverse cardiovascular events in Chinese patients with STEMI.