However, the discrimination we described for NT-proBNP (ROC AUC, 0.74) was essentially the same as the discrimination described by Duceppe et al8 for vascular death and myocardial injury (ROC AUC, 0.73) and for all-cause mortality at myocardial infarction (ROC AUC, 0.75).8 Here, NPPB is linked to myocardial infarction.