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In diabetic rats and mice, a common diabetes drug called metformin helps protect the heart after a heart attack by making the body use insulin better and lowering harmful stress in the cells.
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The study gave metformin to rats after a heart attack and found it helped reduce heart damage by lowering harmful stress and improving energy use — which matches what the claim says, even though the rats weren’t diabetic.
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This study says metformin, a diabetes drug, helps protect the heart from damage after a heart attack in animals with diabetes, by reducing harmful stress and improving how the body uses insulin.
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