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SGLT2 Inhibition and Acute Kidney Injury Friend or Foe?

George Vasquez Rios George Vasquez Rios, MD, is in the internal medicine department, Saint Louis University School of Medicine, and the division of nephrology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai.

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