When rats have a heart attack and are given a common diabetes drug called metformin, their gut bacteria become more varied and diverse than in rats that didn’t get the drug.

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Metformin attenuates post-infarction cardiac remodelling in rats, associated with changes in oxidative stress, energy metabolism, gut microbiota and metabolomics

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Scientists gave metformin to rats after heart attacks and found that their gut bacteria became more diverse and varied compared to rats that didn’t get the drug — exactly what the claim says.

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Metformin attenuates post-infarction cardiac remodelling in rats, associated with changes in oxidative stress, energy metabolism, gut microbiota and metabolomics

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DOI: 10.1093/eurheartj/ehaf784.1910

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When rats have a heart attack, giving them metformin (a common diabetes drug) seems to help lower harmful stress in their heart tissue, compared to rats that don’t get the drug.

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When rats have a heart attack and are given metformin, their blood shows changes in certain natural chemicals—some go down, like arginine and tryptophan, while others, like azelaic acid, go up.

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When rats have a heart attack and are given metformin, their hearts show less thickening and scarring, even though the size of the damage and overall heart function don’t get better or worse.

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In rats that had a heart attack, taking metformin didn’t make the heart damage smaller or improve how well the heart pumped, but it did help reduce some of the scarring and thickening in the heart muscle.

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