Risk of acute kidney injury and survival in patients treated with Metformin: an observational cohort study

BACKGROUND: Whether metformin precipitates lactic acidosis in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) remains under debate. We examined whether metformin use was associated with an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) as a proxy for lactic acidosis and whether survival among those with AKI...

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Autores principales: Bell, Samira, Farran, Bassam, McGurnaghan, Stuart, McCrimmon, Rory J., Leese, Graham P, Petrie, John R, McKeigue, Paul, Sattar, Naveed, Wild, Sarah, McKnight, John, Lindsay, Robert, Colhoun, Helen M., Looker, Helen
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28526011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0579-5

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5437411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28526011
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12882-017-0579-5

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