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- Title
Risk of fatal and nonfatal lactic acidosis with metformin use in type 2 diabetes mellitus: systematic review and meta-analysis.
- Authors
Salpeter, Shelley R; Greyber, Elizabeth; Pasternak, Gary A; Salpeter, Edwin E
- Abstract
Metformin therapy for type 2 diabetes mellitus has been shown to reduce total mortality rates compared with other antihyperglycemic treatments but is thought to increase the risk of lactic acidosis. The true incidence of fatal and nonfatal lactic acidosis associated with metformin use is not known.
- Publication
Archives of internal medicine, 2003, Vol 163, Issue 21, p2594
- ISSN
0003-9926
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1001/archinte.163.21.2594