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Metformin

People taking metformin, a diabetes medicine, compared with people who don't.

2 studies · newest 2024
New: Larsson 2024, 2,223 people

What's here so far

No field note has been written for metformin yet, so this page doesn't describe what studies found. It lists the 2 studies with results for metformin microbe by microbe, which a field note will draw on.

People take these medicines for reasons that can also go with different gut microbes.

Who's been studied

WhereChina · Denmark · Sweden

How many2 studies · 3,007 people

HowEach person measured once

The studies

● measured once■ followed the same people▲ a trialsize = people

New connections of medication use and polypharmacy with the gut microbiota composition and functional potential in a large population Scientific Reports · 2024 · Larsson 2024 · PubMed ↗ 2,223 people · Malmö Offspring Study, Sweden · Sweden
Each person measured once · Shotgun sequencing
Per-microbe tables open · CC BY 4.0 Competing interests None declared.

Disentangling type 2 diabetes and metformin treatment signatures in the human gut microbiota Nature · 2015 · Forslund 2015 · PubMed ↗ 784 people · 3 cohorts · China, Denmark, Sweden
Each person measured once · Shotgun sequencing
Cited in our own words · Author manuscript under the publisher's terms Competing interests No competing financial interests declared. 2 authors list BGI-Shenzhen among their affiliations.