Prognostic impact of elevated lactate levels on mortality in critically ill patients with and without preadmission metformin treatment: a Danish registry-based cohort study

BACKGROUND: Lactate is a robust prognostic marker for the outcome of critically ill patients. Several small studies reported that metformin users have higher lactate levels at ICU admission without a concomitant increase in mortality. However, this has not been investigated in a larger cohort. We ai...

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Autores principales: Posma, Rene A., Frøslev, Trine, Jespersen, Bente, van der Horst, Iwan C. C., Touw, Daan J., Thomsen, Reimar W., Nijsten, Maarten W., Christiansen, Christian F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer International Publishing 2020
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7098407/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32219580
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13613-020-00652-0

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