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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
New light has been shed on how a common diabetes drug can be used to aid recovery from a heart attack.
Heart disease is the leading cause of illness in diabetic patients. It accounts for more than half of all fatalities and the search for enhanced treatments is of high importance.
For the first time, researchers have explored the mechanism behind metformin, a key treatment used by diabetic patients to prevent heart disease. The findings are published today in the journal, Cardiovascular Diabetology.
Experts from Newcastle University, UK, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK, and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, used stem cells from cord blood and cells from umbilical cord to construct a model simulating a heart attack in a lab.
They found new blood vessel formation that is essential for heart attack recovery, and they established metformin enhances the physiological process through which new blood vessels form.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-diabetes-drug-shown-body-rebuild.html
Wonder drug metformin strikes again! 🙂
Heart disease is the leading cause of illness in diabetic patients. It accounts for more than half of all fatalities and the search for enhanced treatments is of high importance.
For the first time, researchers have explored the mechanism behind metformin, a key treatment used by diabetic patients to prevent heart disease. The findings are published today in the journal, Cardiovascular Diabetology.
Experts from Newcastle University, UK, Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Gateshead, UK, and King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, used stem cells from cord blood and cells from umbilical cord to construct a model simulating a heart attack in a lab.
They found new blood vessel formation that is essential for heart attack recovery, and they established metformin enhances the physiological process through which new blood vessels form.
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-02-diabetes-drug-shown-body-rebuild.html
Wonder drug metformin strikes again! 🙂
