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Diabetes Drug Metformin Increases Lifespan

| August 9, 2014 Comment

Diabetes drug, metformin, increases lifespan of diabetes patients, according to researchers at Cardiff University, who studied 180,000 type 2 diabetes patients. Metformin and sulphonylurea are two diabetes drugs that are prescribed as first-line therapy. Sulphonylurea is known to cause side-effects like weight-gain and hypoglycemia. Researchers compared type 2 diabetic patients who were on metformin to […]

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