According to research at the Sahlgrenska Academy at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, it was found out that the medicine metformin can have protective effects that prevent heart disease. Metformin can increase pumping capacity , it also improve energy balance, it reduces the formation of fat, especially it limits the loss of heart cells through programmed cell death.
According to Mr. Jorgen Isgaard, the animals in their study were treated with metformin for a whole year with a persisting effect. But it also has side effects with people who have a problem with their kidney.
“Our results nevertheless strengthens the indication for metformin as a diabetes medicine, and we hope that they are now followed up with the studies on actual patients”, Isgaard said.
The article Metformin Prevents the Development of Chronic Heart Failure in the SHHRF Rat Model was published in Diabetes on the 22nd of February.
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