What is the relationship between metformin and lactic acidosis?
What is the relationship between metformin and lactic acidosis? Summary. Metformin rarely, if ever, causes lactic acidosis when it is used as labeled. Metformin is associated with lactic acidosis in patients with conditions that can themselves cause lactic acidosis (heart failure, hypoxia, sepsis, etc.). How does metformin induced lactic acidosis? Read more…