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A common diabetes drug may prevent long COVID when taken early

By Dr. Priyom Bose, Ph.D. Large clinical trials and real-world data point to a familiar diabetes drug as a simple, safe way ...
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New review highlights growing evidence that diabetes drug metformin can prevent long COVID

Multiple randomized clinical trials and analyses of electronic health records (EHRs) suggest that metformin, a widely available diabetes drug, may reduce the risk of developing long COVID when taken ...
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Diabetes Med Metformin Could Cut Risks for Long COVID

There's new data supporting the notion that the widely used diabetes drug metformin can cut users' odds for Long COVID The drug also reduced the odds that a person with type 2 diabetes would die ...
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Metformin Shows Promise as a Preventive Treatment for Long COVID

Multiple randomized clinical trials and health record studies show that taking metformin during or soon after SARS-CoV-2 ...
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Metformin lowers long COVID risk in people with overweight, obesity

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Metformin lowered the risk for long COVID in adults with overweight or obesity across several analyses. More ...
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Study clarifies association between metformin use and lung cancer risk

Among nonsmokers who had diabetes, those who took the diabetes drug metformin had a decrease in lung cancer risk, according to a study in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American ...