Risk of acute kidney injury and survival in patients treated with Metformin: an observational cohort study
Abstract 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...
Main Authors: | Samira Bell, Bassam Farran, Stuart McGurnaghan, Rory J. McCrimmon, Graham P Leese, John R Petrie, Paul McKeigue, Naveed Sattar, Sarah Wild, John McKnight, Robert Lindsay, Helen M. Colhoun, Helen Looker |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-05-01
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Series: | BMC Nephrology |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-017-0579-5 |
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