{"id":1748,"date":"2017-02-07T22:11:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-07T22:11:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/?p=1748"},"modified":"2017-02-15T10:37:06","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T18:37:06","slug":"older-men-with-diabetes-may-benefit-from-metformin-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/older-men-with-diabetes-may-benefit-from-metformin-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Older men with diabetes may benefit from metformin, study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"kc-elm kc-css-874765 kc_row\"><div class=\"kc-row-container  kc-container\"><div class=\"kc-wrap-columns\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-21474 kc_col-sm-12 kc_column kc_col-sm-12\"><div class=\"kc-col-container\"><div class=\"kc-elm kc-css-978308 kc_text_block\">\n<p>Researchers found that older men with type 2 diabetes who were on metformin therapy had a reduced risk of developing cancer, cardiovascular disease, dementia, depression and frailty-related diseases. The findings in the <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/r.smartbrief.com\/resp\/iLepDjuQiApiiweQfDqNgkcOJhRV\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Diabetes and Its Complications<\/a>, based on 41,204 men ages at least 65, also revealed an association between metformin use and a reduced mortality rate.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/r.smartbrief.com\/resp\/iLepDjuQiApiiwfcfDqNgkcOVaey?format=standard\" target=\"_blank\">Healio (free registration)\/Endocrine Today<\/a><span class=\"\"> (2\/3)<\/span><\/p>\n<p>News provided by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www2.smartbrief.com\/diabetespro\">DiabetesPro SmartBrief<\/a>\u00a0in conjunction with the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diabetes.org\/\">American Diabetes Association<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetes-related-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1748"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1879,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1748\/revisions\/1879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}