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. 2020 Feb;63(2):444-447.
doi: 10.1007/s00125-019-05042-1. Epub 2019 Nov 22.

Metformin increases fasting glucose clearance and endogenous glucose production in non-diabetic individuals

Laura J McCreight  1 , Andrea Mari  2 , Lucy Coppin  3 , Nicola Jackson  3 , A Margot Umpleby  3 , Ewan R Pearson  4
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Metformin increases fasting glucose clearance and endogenous glucose production in non-diabetic individuals

Laura J McCreight et al. Diabetologia. 2020 Feb.
No abstract available

Keywords: Endogenous glucose production; Glucose clearance; Metformin; Mixed-meal test; Stable isotopes.

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Fasting EGP (a); meal mean EGP (b); fasting glucose clearance (c) and meal mean glucose clearance (d) at all visits. Data are median (IQR) of all participants (n=15) in each cohort
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