whether metformin is appropriate for diabetes patients with heart failure
November 2005
Experts are debating whether metformin is appropriate for diabetes patients with heart failure.
Metformin is currently contraindicated in most patients with heart failure...due to concerns about possible lactic acidosis.
Theoretically, this makes sense.
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