{"id":448,"date":"2023-06-08T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=448"},"modified":"2023-11-21T03:31:24","modified_gmt":"2023-11-21T08:31:24","slug":"covid-19-metformin-reduces-the-risk-of-developing-long-term-symptoms-by-40-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-metformin-reduces-the-risk-of-developing-long-term-symptoms-by-40-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Covid-19: Metformin reduces the risk of developing long term symptoms by 40%, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Metformin\u2014a cheap, safe, and widely available diabetes drug\u2014could reduce the incidence of long covid if given during the acute phase of covid-19, a new study indicates.<\/p>\n<p>A two week course of metformin given within three days of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 led to 40% fewer long covid diagnoses over the following 10&nbsp;months compared with people who had taken placebo, according to a randomised controlled trial.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Metformin\u2014a cheap, safe, and widely available diabetes drug\u2014could reduce the incidence of long covid if given during the acute phase of covid-19, a new study indicates.<\/p>\n<p>A two week course of metformin given within three days of testing positive for SARS-CoV-2 led to 40% fewer long covid diagnoses over the following 10&nbsp;months compared with people who had taken placebo, according to a randomised controlled trial.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/covid-19-metformin-reduces-the-risk-of-developing-long-term-symptoms-by-40-study-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Covid-19: Metformin reduces the risk of developing long term symptoms by 40%, study finds<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[18,39,11,88,455,8,14],"class_list":["post-448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-diabetes","tag-long-covid","tag-medical-treatments","tag-metformin","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448","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=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3198,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448\/revisions\/3198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}