metformin
- n an antidiabetic drug (trade name Glucophage) prescribed to treat type II diabetes
- Beeri stresses that it's far too early to recommend that patients showing early signs of Alzheimer's start to take insulin with metformin or glyburide.
- Some of the drugs that are already used to treat the disorder, like metformin, may work because they also dampen the inflammation response.
- For the metformin group the figure was 22%.