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Definition of metformin
: a drug C4C11N5 used in the form of its hydrochloride to treat type 2 diabetes
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To learn more about the pros and cons of metformin and other treatments, read our Guide to Managing Diabetes.
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The task force considered two medications that are sometimes used to help kids lose weight, orlistat and metformin.
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Currently the main treatment option is the drug metformin .
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About 30 percent of patients who take metformin develop nausea, bloating and abdominal pain.
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In 2013, Filipe Cabreiro showed that metformin—a drug that’s used to treat type 2 diabetes, and that’s being investigated for anti-aging properties—lengthens the lives of nematode worms, but only if the worms have microbes in their guts.
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A study of the diabetes drug metformin, published two years ago in The Lancet, failed to show any impact on the treatment of pancreatic cancer.
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Eventually, Dr. Machineni found a drug combination that had a lasting effect — the diabetes drug metformin, which can have a side effect of weight loss, and lorcaserin, or Belviq, a new weight-loss drug that acts on the brain to control appetite.
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Origin and Etymology of metformin
methyl + -formin (as in phenformin, an earlier antidiabetic drug)
Medical Dictionary
metformin
playMedical Definition of metformin
: an antidiabetic drug used in the form of its hydrochloride C4H11N5·HCl especially to treat type 2 diabetes in patients unresponsive to or intolerant of approved sulfonylurea drugs ◆Trademarks for preparations containing metformin include Glucophage, Glucovance, Invokamet, Janumet, Jentadueto, and Kombiglyze.
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