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Risk of fatal and nonfatal lactic acidosis with metformin use in type 2 diabetes mellitus

Overview of attention for article published in Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2010
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Title
Risk of fatal and nonfatal lactic acidosis with metformin use in type 2 diabetes mellitus
Published in
Cochrane database of systematic reviews, April 2010
DOI 10.1002/14651858.cd002967.pub4
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Authors

Shelley R Salpeter, Elizabeth Greyber, Gary A Pasternak, Edwin E Salpeter

Abstract

Metformin is an oral anti-hyperglycemic agent that has been shown to reduce total mortality compared to other anti-hyperglycemic agents, in the treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Metformin, however, is thought to increase the risk of lactic acidosis, and has been considered to be contraindicated in many chronic hypoxemic conditions that may be associated with lactic acidosis, such as cardiovascular, renal, hepatic and pulmonary disease, and advancing age.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Brazil 4 <1%
Spain 2 <1%
United States 2 <1%
Italy 1 <1%
Hong Kong 1 <1%
South Africa 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Mexico 1 <1%
Netherlands 1 <1%
Other 4 <1%
Unknown 610 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 84 13%
Researcher 77 12%
Student > Bachelor 75 12%
Student > Postgraduate 64 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 53 8%
Other 131 21%
Unknown 144 23%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 308 49%
Nursing and Health Professions 36 6%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 32 5%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 20 3%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 19 3%
Other 50 8%
Unknown 163 26%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 64. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 05 January 2024.
All research outputs
#681,065
of 25,728,855 outputs
Outputs from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#1,251
of 13,136 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#1,854
of 103,620 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Cochrane database of systematic reviews
#5
of 79 outputs
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