{"id":583675,"date":"2023-06-10T15:36:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-10T19:36:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=583675"},"modified":"2023-06-10T15:49:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-10T19:49:37","slug":"metformin-cheap-diabetes-drug-slashes-risk-of-long-covid-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/?p=583675","title":{"rendered":"Metformin – Cheap Diabetes Drug Slashes Risk of Long COVID, Study Finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

The finding was hailed as a potential “landmark” in the fight against the still little-understood condition, which the World Health Organization estimates affects 1 in 10 people who get COVID-19.<\/h4>\n

It tested a drug called metformin<\/a>, which was originally developed from the French lilac flower, and has been the most common medication used to treat type 2 diabetes across the world for decades.<\/p>\n

This means the drug is known to be safe, as well as being inexpensive and widely available.<\/p>\n

The team behind the COVID-OUT trial had previously shown that metformin reduced coronavirus patients’ risk of emergency department visits, hospitalizations and death by more than 40 percent.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/cheap-diabetes-drug-slashes-risk-of-long-covid-study-finds<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The finding was hailed as a potential “landmark” in the fight against the still little-understood condition, which the World Health Organization estimates affects 1 in 10 people who get COVID-19. It tested a drug called metformin, which was originally developed … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2948,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2948"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=583675"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":583678,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583675\/revisions\/583678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=583675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=583675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldtadise.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=583675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}