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# Research Synthesis: Metformin Treatment Effects — full paper

## Abstract

Evidence scope: 18/33 retained sources are indirect, review-level, adjacent, or mechanistic and are used only to bound interpretation. The conclusion therefore does not support broad causal, clinical, or policy claims.

Metformin remains the first-line glucose-lowering agent for type 2 diabetes, and the breadth of its pur…