The US study showed that taking Metformin within three days of testing positive helped reduce chances of developing long COVID.
Taking a Type 2 diabetes drug while you have coronavirus reduces chances of getting long COVID by 40%, a new study has suggested.Scientists in the US have found that participants who took a two-week course within three days of a positive test result were less likely to still have coronavirus symptoms 10 months later.
The trial, published in the Lancet Infectious Diseases journal, was carried out on 1,126 overweight or obese people over the age of 30 between December 2020 and January 2022. It showed that only 6.3% of participants given the drug reported a long COVID diagnosis, compared with 10.4% of those who took a placebo - 40% fewer.
It is the first peer-reviewed phase three trial showing that taking medication while infected could help prevent long COVID. It supports previous studies that show metformin stops the virus from reproducing in lab conditions and reduces the chances of overweight or obese people being hospitalised or dying from COVID.with long COVID, which means they still reported symptoms after four weeks.suggested that most people with lingering symptoms find they are gone within a year.
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