Metformin and Heart Failure: Innocent Until Proven Guilty
Response to Inzucchi
- Sergio Muntoni, MD, PHD
- 1From the Center for Metabolic Diseases and Atherosclerosis of Cagliari, The ME.DI.CO. Association, Cagliari, Italy
- Address correspondence to Sergio Muntoni, MD, PhD, 29 Viale Merello, 09123 Cagliari, Italy. E-mail: sergiomuntoni{at}hotmail.com
The editorial by Inzucchi (1) in the October 2005 issue of Diabetes Care on the effects of metformin in type 2 diabetic patients with heart failure deals in a masterly manner with the choice of the most suitable treatment of this condition. Since both diabetic heart failure and mechanism of metformin action are not completely understood, it is difficult, in the author’s opinion, to …
