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# Research Synthesis: Metformin Intervention 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 occupies an unusual translational position: a decades-old glucose-lowe…