Diabetes drug could be used to treat common heart failure syndrome

[Northerner]

Researchers have discovered that metformin, a drug commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes, might also be used to treat a common heart failure syndrome that is predicted to affect over 8 percent of people ages 65 or older by the year 2020. The study shows that metformin relaxes a key heart muscle protein called titin, allowing the heart to properly fill with blood before pumping it around the body.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/12/181219115454.htm

T'wonderdrug strikes again! 😉

 

[Deleted member 21371]

That was the downside to getting normal BG results.
Eventually i got taken off metformin, despite my protests.

 

[trophywench]

'They' (the magic they LOL) always used to say that it was 'heart protective' around the time I was diagnosed and I used to repeat that it did on forums - but then people quite legitimately asked me 'Why? What does it do to help, then?' so I looked and I couldn't find anything from anyone relevant that said anything useful at all - so decided either I'd dreamt it or it must be an old wives tale. So - I stopped saying it to people!

Is this another prime example of 'things about treating diabetes we used to know, but have chosen to forget' ?