2024年4月8日 · For decades we've known that metformin does more than just help lower blood sugar in people with diabetes. It also offers them cardiovascular benefits, including lower rates of death due to cardiovascular disease. And it sometimes helps …

2024年10月8日 · Some of the potential benefits of metformin include aiding in weight loss, slowing aging, and boosting fertility in people with PCOS. It may also lower the risk of other diseases like dementia...

2022年8月11日 · Metformin is the first-choice oral treatment for Type 2 diabetes. It improves the effects of insulin on the liver and skeletal muscles. But researchers have found many other uses for metformin beyond diabetes treatment. The benefits of metformin range from improving fertility to increasing life span.

2023年3月17日 · Historically, healthcare providers have prescribed metformin to treat high blood sugar for people with type 2 diabetes, but increasingly, emerging research suggests that the medication may...

2024年2月20日 · Metformin can be prescribed off-label to treat prediabetes, cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative disease. Emerging studies suggest that metformin may also help prevent or delay age-related diseases in healthy individuals, but …

2024年11月28日 · Metformin decreases androgen hormone levels, improves menstrual cycles, ovulation regularity, and insulin sensitivity. Metformin rarely produces hypoglycemia (low blood sugar levels). Metformin does not change how much insulin is secreted and it does not cause hyperinsulinemia (high insulin levels).

Metformin is a widely used biguanide drug due to its safety and low cost. It has been used for over 60 years to treat type 2 diabetes at the early stages because of its outstanding ability to decrease plasma glucose levels.