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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
RESEARCH carried out by scientists at a Scottish university has shown that the diabetes drug metformin may have the potential of being developed into a new treatment for patients with heart failure.
Metformin is the world?s most commonly prescribed diabetes medicine, and researchers from Dundee University have previously established that metformin affords type 2 diabetes patients protection against both cancer and cardiovascular disease.
But a new study, led by Chim Lang, Professor of Cardiology at the university, involving a clinical trial on non-diabetic patients, has shown that metformin may prove beneficial to patients suffering from heart failure.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health...eat-heart-failure-scots-study-shows-1-2388031
Metformin is the world?s most commonly prescribed diabetes medicine, and researchers from Dundee University have previously established that metformin affords type 2 diabetes patients protection against both cancer and cardiovascular disease.
But a new study, led by Chim Lang, Professor of Cardiology at the university, involving a clinical trial on non-diabetic patients, has shown that metformin may prove beneficial to patients suffering from heart failure.
http://www.scotsman.com/news/health...eat-heart-failure-scots-study-shows-1-2388031