Effect of metformin on all-cause and cardiovascular mortality in patients with coronary artery diseases: a systematic review and an updated meta-analysis

Y Han, H Xie, Y Liu, P Gao, X Yang, Z Shen - Cardiovascular Diabetology, 2019 - Springer
Background Metformin is the most widely prescribed drug to lower glucose and has a
definitive effect on the cardiovascular system. The goal of this systematic review and meta …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin as a tool to target aging

N Barzilai, JP Crandall, SB Kritchevsky, MA Espeland - Cell metabolism, 2016 - cell.com
Aging has been targeted by genetic and dietary manipulation and by drugs in order to
increase lifespan and health span in numerous models. Metformin, which has demonstrated …

Multi-ethnic genome-wide association study for atrial fibrillation

C Roselli, MD Chaffin, LC Weng, S Aeschbacher… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Atrial fibrillation (AF) affects more than 33 million individuals worldwide and has a complex
heritability. We conducted the largest meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies …

Metformin is associated with higher incidence of acidosis, but not mortality, in individuals with COVID-19 and pre-existing type 2 diabetes

X Cheng, YM Liu, H Li, X Zhang, F Lei, JJ Qin, Z Chen… - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
The safety and efficacy of anti-diabetic drugs are critical for maximizing the beneficial
impacts of well-controlled blood glucose on the prognosis of individuals with COVID-19 and …

[HTML][HTML] Metformin: from mechanisms of action to therapies

M Foretz, B Guigas, L Bertrand, M Pollak, B Viollet - Cell metabolism, 2014 - cell.com
Metformin is currently the first-line drug treatment for type 2 diabetes. Besides its glucose-
lowering effect, there is interest in actions of the drug of potential relevance to cardiovascular …

Clinical diabetic cardiomyopathy: a two-faced disease with restrictive and dilated phenotypes

PM Seferović, WJ Paulus - European heart journal, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Diabetes mellitus-related cardiomyopathy (DMCMP) was originally described as a dilated
phenotype with eccentric left ventricular (LV) remodelling and systolic LV dysfunction …

Heart failure and diabetes: metabolic alterations and therapeutic interventions: a state-of-the-art review from the Translational Research Committee of the Heart …

C Maack, M Lehrke, J Backs, FR Heinzel… - European heart …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Heart failure (HF) is growing to a modern epidemic and despite advances in therapy, it still
carries an ominous prognosis and a significant socioeconomic burden. 1 Many novel agents …

Effects of metformin in heart failure: From pathophysiological rationale to clinical evidence

T Salvatore, R Galiero, A Caturano, E Vetrano… - Biomolecules, 2021 - mdpi.com
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) is a worldwide major health burden and heart failure (HF)
is the most common cardiovascular (CV) complication in affected patients. Therefore …

Metformin: a novel weapon against inflammation

B Bai, H Chen - Frontiers in pharmacology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
It has become widely accepted that inflammation is a driving force behind a variety of
chronic diseases, such as cardiovascular disease, diabetes, kidney disease, cancer …

Metformin effects on the heart and the cardiovascular system: A review of experimental and clinical data

L Nesti, A Natali - Nutrition, Metabolism and Cardiovascular Diseases, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Metformin, the eldest and most widely used glucose lowering drug, is likely to
be effective also on cardiac and vascular disease prevention. Nonetheless, uncertainty still …