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Metformin History Biguanides, to which metformin belongs, were already used in the Middle Ages in Southern and Eastern Europe for the treatment of diabetes in the form of the plant galega officinalis (yarrow), which is rich in guanidine. Watanabe was the first to demonstrate its blood sugar-lower...

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