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Filter by:Aim Evidence of a possible connection between gut microbiota and several physiological processes linked to type 1 diabetes is increasing. However, the effect of multistrain probiotics in people with type 1 diabetes remains unclear. This study investigated the effect of metformin as add-on therapy on glycemic control and other diabetes-related outcomes in people with type 1 diabetes.
This project is designed to evaluating the use of combination therapy of glucocorticoid and metformin to decrease glucocorticoid side effects in participants with autoimmune uveitis.This study also aims to evaluate the anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressive effects of combination therapy.
The investigators aim to investigate the interindividual variation in metformin AUC in a large cohort of healthy volunteers after a single dose of metformin. Part 1 is driven by the hypothesis that metformin AUC and renal clearance exhibit significant interindividual variation. However this has never been documented in a large cohort of healthy volunteers. The investigators aim to investigate the potential interaction between codeine and metformin in the intestine. The hypothesis underlying part 3 is that the increased risk of early discontinuation of metformin during co-administration with codeine is primarily due to local inhibition of OCT1 via codeine at the intestinal level.
This research will help us to learn if the medicine called metformin reduces the risk of death, heart attacks, and/or strokes in patients who have pre-diabetes and heart or blood vessel problems.
The fact that metformin treatment has been associated with reduced risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease raises the possibility of a beneficial role of metformin for other age-related diseases. The actions of metformin resemble the effects of calorie restriction (CR) to some extent, and microarray analyses have shown that metformin induces a gene expression profile that aligns with that of CR in animal. The aim of the study is to investigate whether metformin treatment can induce dietary restriction-like state in human. Sixty overweight subjects will be included in this study, and participants will be divided 3 groups (20 cases in each group)including metformin group (0.85, twice daily), standard diet group, and CR group. All subjects will be treated 6 months. At the end of this study, blood samples and muscle samples will be obtained.
Gestational diabetes (GD) is defined by a hyperglycemia discovered during pregnancy, leading to fetal and maternal complications which may be prevented by reaching very strict glycaemia targets. Prevalence depends on patient's ethnic group and is about 6 to 14%. This prevalence is increasing due to increased GD risk factors (obesity, pregnancy over 35) and also because criteria of screening have been strengthened after the results of last studies. Usual treatment is diet and in case of failure insulin therapy with multiple injections which may lead to hypoglycemia and weight gain and is very difficult to manage for patients. Some studies have shown the comparable effect of metformin and insulin in about 50% of GD obese patients. The aim of our study is to evaluate efficacy of metformin, outcomes in mother and fetus and baby of metformin. In case of metformin failure, insulin will be added in order to obtain glycaemia in desired goals.Oxidative stress will be assessed in mother blood, baby umbilical cord blood, baby umbilical cord and placenta in 90 women and the oxidative stress compared between insulin and metformin alone treated patients.
The aim of the study is to evaluate the pharmacokinetics of metformin in healthy Caucasians volunteers with and without the polymorphism A270S in OCT2,thus the study hypothesis is that renal clearance of metformin is affected in Caucasian with the known single nucleotide polymorphisms A270S in OCT2.
Metformin is the first line drug of choice for the treatment of type II diabetes. Lactic acidosis can develop as a side effect, especially when renal failure leads to drug accumulation. Lactic acidosis is usually attributed to an abnormal inhibition of hepatic lactate clearance. Growing evidence suggest that metformin can dose-dependently inhibit hepatocyte mitochondrial function. Whether a similar effect occurs in extra-hepatic human tissues remains unknown. The investigators hypothesize that mitochondrial dysfunction occurs during metformin intoxication even in tissues other than the liver, thus contributing to the development of lactic acidosis. The aim of this study is to investigate mitochondrial integrity in circulating platelets of patients with lactic acidosis due to metformin intoxication.
Metformin is widely used for treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus. Side-effects are few and mainly from the gastrointestinal tract. Since metformin is cleared from the blood exclusively via the kidneys reduced renal function is a relative contraindication. We have earlier demonstrated that metformin safely can be used to a lower GFR level of 30 ml/min/1.73. Below that level the risk of lactacidosis, a severe complication, increases. In the present study we plan to analyse serum levels of metformin repeatedly in patients with moderate renal failure (CKD = GFR of 30-60 ml/min/1.73). Blood samples will be taken as trough values in the morning, week 0, 2, 4, and 8 and at four weeks a blood sample will be taken two hours after intake of the morning dose of metformin. Renal function will be estimated with creatinine and cystatin C at each occasion. The intraindividual variation of metformin will be calculated. The study rests on a new method for measuring metformin. The technique uses Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectometry (LCMSMS). Proteins are removed from serum by adding acetonitrile to the sample. After centrifugation a diluted portion of the supernatant is injected into the LCMSMS-system. The total runtime for a sample is 6 minutes. The study will show if variation in serum levels of metformin measured in the same patient is high or low and thus give us better understanding whether a change i serum level is due to biological variation or to increased retention caused by progressive renal failure.