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Use of cystatin C to inform metformin eligibility among adult veterans with diabetes

AIMS: Recommendations for metformin use are dependent on eGFR category: eGFR >45 ml/min/1.73 m(2) – “first-line agent”; eGFR 30–44 – “use with caution”; eGFR<30 – “do not use”. Misclassification of metformin eligibility by creatinine-based MDRD GFR estimates (eGFRcr) may contribute to its misu...

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Autores principales: Tuot, Delphine S., Scherzer, Rebecca, Leong, Howard, Hung, Adriana M., Grunfeld, Carl, Shlipak, Michael G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5464411/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28603691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcte.2015.10.002

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