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Metformin treatment in diabetes and heart failure: when academic equipoise meets clinical reality
OBJECTIVE: Metformin has had a 'black box' contraindication in diabetic patients with heart failure (HF), but many believe it to be the treatment of choice in this setting. Therefore, we attempted to conduct a pilot study to evaluate the feasibility of undertaking a large randomized contro...
Autores principales: | Eurich, Dean T, Tsuyuki, Ross T, Majumdar, Sumit R, McAlister, Finlay A, Lewanczuk, Richard, Shibata, Marcelo C, Johnson, Jeffrey A |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2009
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2644685/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19203392 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1745-6215-10-12 |
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