metformin can be used in patients with heart failure
February 2008
Many clinicians are not aware that metformin can be used in patients with heart failure.
The concern was that decreased kidney perfusion in patients with worsening heart failure could cause lactic acid accumulation.
But we know now that metformin is beneficial in patients with STABLE heart failure...and does NOT increase lactate levels.
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