Metformin Use in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus With CKD: Is It Time to Liberalize Dosing Recommendations?

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Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed.

1. Further clarifying the relationship between metformin, acute kidney injury and lactic acidosis.Nature reviews. Nephrology · 2017
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2. Risks of Metformin in Type 2 Diabetes and Chronic Kidney Disease: Lessons Learned from Taiwanese Data.Nephron · 2017
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3. Metformin associated lactic acidosis (MALA): clinical profiling and management.Journal of nephrology · 2016
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4. Therapy: Risk of metformin use in patients with T2DM and advanced CKD.Nature reviews. Endocrinology · 2015
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5. Restricting Metformin in CKD: Continued Caution Warranted.American journal of kidney diseases : the official journal of the National Kidney Foundation · 2015
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  Metformin in patients with type 2 diabetes and kidney disease: a systematic review.

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