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. 2020 Jul:165:108268.
doi: 10.1016/j.diabres.2020.108268. Epub 2020 Jun 10.

Is metformin ahead in the race as a repurposed host-directed therapy for patients with diabetes and COVID-19?

Awadhesh Kumar Singh  1 , Ritu Singh  2
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Is metformin ahead in the race as a repurposed host-directed therapy for patients with diabetes and COVID-19?

Awadhesh Kumar Singh et al. Diabetes Res Clin Pract. 2020 Jul.
No abstract available

Keywords: Anti-diabetic agents; COVID-19; Diabetes; Metformin; SARS-CoV-2.

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Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper.

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