Diabetes Drug Found Protective Against COVID-19

[Northerner]

Treating people with the diabetes drug metformin before a diagnosis of COVID-19 is associated with a threefold decrease in mortality in COVID-19 patients with Type 2 diabetes, according to a study at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB).

After controlling for other covariates, age, and gender, metformin use emerged as independent factors affecting COVID-19-related mortality. After controlling for all variables, death was significantly less likely — with an odds ratio of 0.33 — for Type 2 diabetes subjects taking metformin, compared with those who did not take metformin, said these UAB researchers.

“This beneficial effect remained, even after correcting for age, sex, race, obesity, and hypertension or chronic kidney disease and heart failure,” said Anath Shalev, M.D., director of UAB’s Comprehensive Diabetes Center and leader of the study, published on January 13, 2021.

Diabetes Drug Found Protective Against COVID-19

Metformin use found effective in preventing severe COVID-19

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The Wonder Drug strikes again! 😱

 

[Bruce Stephens]

The Wonder Drug strikes again!

Helps with almost as many things as Vitamin D.

 

[trophywench]

One wonders being as it's Alabama, how many were overweight BAME T2 diabetics and how many were white normal weight ones?

 

[Vonny]

Hmm, got a GP phone appointment on Thursday to ask if I can come off metformin since my latest hba1c has dropped again to 36. I may just cancel it for the time being!

 

[Vonny]

I kept my appt with the doc re coming off metformin, and we agreed to just reduce it to 1 a day rather than coming off it altogether. Obviously the research mentioned above played a part in my not wanting to come off it altogether at the moment. I know not everything we read is true but is sows a seed and I'm happy with the compromise 🙂