Mortality and metformin use in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease

The Lancet Diabetes and Endocrinology

Volumn 3, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 680-681

  Lalau, Jean Daniel ^a,b   Kajbaf, Farshad ^a,b   Arnouts, Paul ^c   de Broe, Marc ^d  

^a AMIENS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE PICARDIE JULES VERNE   (France)

^c Sint Jozefziekenhuis   (Belgium)

^d ANTWERP UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HEMOGLOBIN A1C; METFORMIN; ANTIDIABETIC AGENT;

CHRONIC KIDNEY DISEASE; COMORBIDITY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DIABETIC NEPHROPATHY; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EFFICACY; GLOMERULUS FILTRATION; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KIDNEY TUBULE EXCRETION; LACTIC ACIDOSIS; LETTER; MORTALITY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; TREATMENT DURATION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COMPLICATION; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2;

DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 2; HUMANS; HYPOGLYCEMIC AGENTS; METFORMIN; RENAL INSUFFICIENCY, CHRONIC;

EID: 84939500117     PISSN: 22138587     EISSN: 22138595     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S2213-8587(15)00285-5     Document Type: Letter

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