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On the set of 19/20, the journalist and doctor Damien Mascret evokes a study which supposes that a drug against diabetes could help reduce the risk of contracting a long Covid.
The long Covid is very disabling, as journalist and doctor Damien Mascret reminds us on the set of 19/20. A study gives a new way to treat it: “The researchers took more than 1,000 patients, divided into two groups: one who received usual treatment and one who was given an antidiabetic drug, metformin. 10 months later, 10% of people had long covid, but only 6% in the group with metformin.”
Metformin has anti-inflammatory properties
Should this treatment be given to all people who test positive for Covid? “At least to those included in the study, who are over 30, overweight or obese. In Covid, you have significant inflammation, but this antidiabetic drug (…) also has antiviral and antiinflammatory activity. Maybe that’s where the action is. In addition, it is a well tolerated drug and well known to doctors“emphasizes Damien Mascret.
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