Citizen Petition to the US Food and Drug Administration to Change Prescribing Guidelines: The Metformin Experience

Affiliations

¹ From Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (K.J.L., S.E.I.); Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (J.H.F.); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S.H.). kasia.lipska@yale.edu.
² From Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (K.J.L., S.E.I.); Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (J.H.F.); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S.H.).

Kasia J Lipska et al. Circulation. 2016.

. 2016 Nov 1;134(18):1405-1408.

doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.116.023041.

¹ From Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (K.J.L., S.E.I.); Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (J.H.F.); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S.H.). kasia.lipska@yale.edu.
² From Section of Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT (K.J.L., S.E.I.); Department of Healthcare Policy and Research, Weill Cornell Medical College and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY (J.H.F.); and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (S.H.).

No abstract available

Keywords: diabetes mellitus; kidney; lactate.

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