{"id":5634,"date":"2024-05-03T16:12:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-03T20:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/?p=5634"},"modified":"2024-05-04T15:13:31","modified_gmt":"2024-05-04T19:13:31","slug":"common-diabetes-drug-lowers-sars-cov-2-levels-clinical-trial-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/common-diabetes-drug-lowers-sars-cov-2-levels-clinical-trial-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Common diabetes drug lowers SARS-CoV-2 levels, clinical trial finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, researchers from the University of Minnesota <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciae159\/7660393\" rel=\"noopener\">published evidence<\/a> that the common diabetes drug metformin decreases the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in the body and helps reduce the risk of rebound symptoms if given early in the course of non-severe illness. <\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <em>Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em>, suggests metformin may also help prevent long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers tested metformin against a placebo in 999&nbsp;adults infected with COVID-19. More than 50% of the study enrollees were vaccinated, and treatment took place when the Omicron variant was the most dominant strain in the United States. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, researchers from the University of Minnesota <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/academic.oup.com\/cid\/advance-article-abstract\/doi\/10.1093\/cid\/ciae159\/7660393\" rel=\"noopener\">published evidence<\/a> that the common diabetes drug metformin decreases the amount of SARS-CoV-2 in the body and helps reduce the risk of rebound symptoms if given early in the course of non-severe illness. <\/p>\n<p>The study, published in <em>Clinical Infectious Diseases<\/em>, suggests metformin may also help prevent long COVID.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers tested metformin against a placebo in 999&nbsp;adults infected with COVID-19. More than 50% of the study enrollees were vaccinated, and treatment took place when the Omicron variant was the most dominant strain in the United States. <\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/news\/common-diabetes-drug-lowers-sars-cov-2-levels-clinical-trial-finds\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Common diabetes drug lowers SARS-CoV-2 levels, clinical trial finds<\/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":[18,39,11,88,455,55,8,14,51,1100],"class_list":["post-5634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-covid-19","tag-diabetes","tag-long-covid","tag-medical-treatments","tag-metformin","tag-omicron","tag-research","tag-sars-cov-2","tag-united-states","tag-university-of-minnesota","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634","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=5634"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5639,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5634\/revisions\/5639"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stillcoviding.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}