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"There are no drugs to treat long COVID – a condition that affects around 2
million people in the UK alone – so you can imagine the excitement when a cheap
diabetes drug called metformin was shown to decrease the risk of getting the
disease.
The study, published in
The Lancet Infectious Diseases, showed that if you
give people who are overweight or obese metformin when they are ill with COVID,
they are 40% less likely to develop long COVID compared with people who are
given a placebo (dummy pill).
We don’t know exactly what causes long COVID, but a variety of biological
mechanisms have been suggested, including an overactive immune response, the
virus lingering in certain organs, and thrombosis (clots) causing tissue
damage.
Finding a cure is clearly going to be difficult, so a better approach would be
to prevent the condition from developing in the first place. Treatment given
during the infection may be able to reduce the immune response or help the body
eliminate the virus and so lessen its long-term effects."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
