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New use for an old drug: Metformin and atrial fibrillation

Vinciguerra M, Olier I, Ortega-Martorell S, Lip GYH

Cell reports. Medicine, 2022

Abstract

Lal and colleagues1 reported an integrative approach-combining transcriptomics, iPSCs, and epidemiological evidence-to identify and repurpose metformin, a main first-line medication for the treatment of type 2 diabetes, as an effective risk reducer for atrial fibrillation.

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