PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Terpening, Chris
TI  - MALAdaptive: Do We Avoid Metformin Unnecessarily?
AID  - 10.3122/jabfm.2014.01.120173
DP  - 2014 Jan 01
TA  - The Journal of the American Board of Family
                Medicine
PG  - 136--141
VI  - 27
IP  - 1
4099  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/1/136.short
4100  - http://www.jabfm.org/content/27/1/136.full
SO  - J Am Board Fam Med2014 Jan 01; 27
AB  - Convention holds that the use of metformin is contraindicated in many patients secondary to concerns about lactic acidosis. However, current evidence suggests that metformin-associated lactic acidosis is at most idiosyncratic. Awareness of the current evidence should permit broader use of this valuable medication.