Trial reportCirculation2017
Effect of Long-Term Metformin and Lifestyle in the Diabetes Prevention Program and Its Outcome Study on Coronary Artery Calcium.
Trial report in Circulation, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It reports registered trial NCT00038727. Cited by 69 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study
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69 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Metformin for prevention or delay of type 2 diabetes mellitus and its associated complications in persons at increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes mellitus.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2019 · on this mapPooled it
- Vitamin D Receptor Polymorphisms and the Effect of Vitamin D Supplementation on Diabetes Risk Among Adults With Prediabetes.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
- Coronary Artery Calcium and Cognitive Decline in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study.Journal of the American Heart Association · 2023Trial
- Effects of Long-term Metformin and Lifestyle Interventions on Cardiovascular Events in the Diabetes Prevention Program and Its Outcome Study.Circulation · 2022Trial
- Metformin and high-sensitivity cardiac troponin I and T trajectories in type 2 diabetes patients: a post-hoc analysis of a randomized controlled trial.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2022Trial
- Hepatic Fat in Participants With and Without Incident Diabetes in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome Study.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2021Trial
- Infertility, Gravidity, and Risk Of Diabetes among High-Risk Women in the Diabetes Prevention Program Outcomes Study.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2020 · on this mapTrial
- The Association of Coronary Artery Calcification With Subsequent Incidence of Cardiovascular Disease in Type 1 Diabetes: The DCCT/EDIC Trials.JACC. Cardiovascular imaging · 2019Trial
- Empagliflozin on top of metformin treatment improves arterial function in patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus.Cardiovascular diabetology · 2018Trial
- Androgens, Irregular Menses, and Risk of Diabetes and Coronary Artery Calcification in the Diabetes Prevention Program.The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism · 2018Trial
- Impact of continuation of metformin prior to elective coronary angiography on acute contrast nephropathy in patients with normal or mildly impaired renal functions.Anatolian journal of cardiology · 2017 · on this mapTrial
- Medial arterial calcification in ageing and disease: current evidence and knowledge gaps.European heart journal · 2025Review
- From Diabetes to Degenerative Diseases: The Multifaceted Action of Metformin.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Review
- Emerging uncertainty on the anti-aging potential of metformin.Ageing research reviews · 2025Review
- Metformin use in prediabetes: A review of evidence and a focus on metabolic features among peri-menopausal women.Diabetes, obesity & metabolism · 2025Review
- A unique inflammaging profile generated by T cells from people with obesity is metformin resistant.GeroScience · 2025Article
- Weight Loss in Midlife, Chronic Disease Incidence, and All-Cause Mortality During Extended Follow-Up.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Metformin reverts aortic calcifications and elastin loss induced by an experimental metabolic syndrome.Endocrine connections · 2025Article
- Metformin plus lifestyle interventions versus lifestyle interventions alone for the delay or prevention of type 2 diabetes in individuals with prediabetes: a meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials.Diabetology & metabolic syndrome · 2024Review
- The association of ideal cardiovascular health and its change with subclinical atherosclerosis according to glucose status: A prospective cohort study.Journal of diabetes · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundDespite the reduced incidence of coronary heart disease with intensive risk factor management, people with diabetes mellitus and prediabetes remain at increased coronary heart disease risk. Diabetes prevention interventions may be needed to reduce coronary heart disease risk. This approach was examined in the DPP (Diabetes Prevention Program) and the DPPOS (Diabetes Prevention Program Outcome Study), a long-term intervention study in 3234 subjects with prediabetes (mean±SD age, 64±10 years) that showed reduced diabetes risk with lifestyle and metformin compared with placebo over 3.2 years.
methodsThe DPPOS offered periodic group lifestyle sessions to all participants and continued metformin in the originally randomized metformin group. Subclinical atherosclerosis was assessed in 2029 participants with coronary artery calcium (CAC) measurements after an average of 14 years of follow-up. The CAC scores were analyzed continuously as CAC severity and categorically as CAC presence (CAC score >0) and reported separately in men and women.
resultsThere were no CAC differences between lifestyle and placebo intervention groups in either sex. CAC severity and presence were significantly lower among men in the metformin versus the placebo group (age-adjusted mean CAC severity, 39.5 versus 66.9 Agatston units,
conclusionsMetformin may protect against coronary atherosclerosis in prediabetes and early diabetes mellitus among men. CLINICAL
trial registrationURL: http://www.clinicaltrials.gov. Unique identifier: NCT00038727.
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