{"id":10580,"date":"2026-11-11T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-11-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=10580"},"modified":"2026-11-12T01:44:01","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T06:44:01","slug":"common-diabetes-drug-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death-after-covid-infection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/common-diabetes-drug-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death-after-covid-infection\/","title":{"rendered":"Common diabetes drug linked to lower risk of death after COVID infection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People with type&nbsp;2 diabetes who were taking the drug metformin when they contracted COVID-19 had a 39% lower risk of dying over the following year than peers who were taking a different diabetes medication, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/dom.71502\">study<\/a> published last week in <i>Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The study also found that those who were taking metformin, a medication that helps lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity, had a slightly reduced but non-statistically significant risk of long COVID.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People with type&nbsp;2 diabetes who were taking the drug metformin when they contracted COVID-19 had a 39% lower risk of dying over the following year than peers who were taking a different diabetes medication, according to a <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/dom-pubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/dom.71502\">study<\/a> published last week in <i>Diabetes, Obesity and Metabolism.<\/i><\/p>\n<p>The study also found that those who were taking metformin, a medication that helps lower blood sugar and improve insulin sensitivity, had a slightly reduced but non-statistically significant risk of long COVID.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/common-diabetes-drug-linked-to-lower-risk-of-death-after-covid-infection\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common diabetes drug linked to lower risk of death after COVID infection<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,455,8,14],"class_list":["post-10580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-metformin","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10580"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10581,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10580\/revisions\/10581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}