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Metformin use and associated risk of total joint replacement in patients with type 2 diabetes: a population-based matched cohort study

BACKGROUND: It is uncertain whether metformin use is associated with reduced risk of joint replacement in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. We aimed to establish whether metformin use was associated with a reduced risk of total knee replacement (TKR) or total hip replacement (THR) among these...

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Autores principales: Zhu, Zhaohua, Huang, Jing-Yang, Ruan, Guangfeng, Cao, Peihua, Chen, Shibo, Zhang, Yan, Han, Weiyu, Chen, Tianyu, Cai, Xiaoyan, Liu, Jia, Tang, Yujin, Yu, Na, Wang, Qian, Hunter, David J., Wei, James Cheng-Chung, Ding, Changhai
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: CMA Impact Inc. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9829054/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36535678
http://dx.doi.org/10.1503/cmaj.220952