Mortality and metformin use in patients with advanced chronic kidney disease--Authors' reply

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of Nephrology, Taipei Tzu Chi Hospital, Buddhist Tzu Chi Medical Foundation and Tzu Chi University, Hualien, Taiwan.
• ² Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan.
• ³ Institute of Population Health Sciences, National Health Research Institutes, Zhunan, Taiwan; Institutes of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan.
• ⁴ Institutes of Clinical Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan; Physiology, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei City, Taiwan; Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan. Electronic address: dctarng@vghtpe.gov.tw.