Association of metformin use with vitamin B12 deficiency in the institutionalized elderly.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.archger.2018.07.019
Abstract: Elderly people living in long term care institutions are particularly at risk of vitamin B12 deficiency. The prevalence of vitamin B12 deficiency was 34.9% among the 1996 institutionalized elderly residents in our previous study. The… read more here.
Keywords: taking metformin; b12 deficiency; vitamin b12;