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Open Access 01-12-2020 | Metformin | Review

Effects of metformin on atrial and ventricular arrhythmias: evidence from cell to patient

Authors: Teerapat Nantsupawat, Wanwarang Wongcharoen, Siriporn C. Chattipakorn, Nipon Chattipakorn

Published in: Cardiovascular Diabetology | Issue 1/2020

Abstract

Metformin has been shown to have various cardiovascular benefits beyond its antihyperglycemic effects, including a reduction in stroke, heart failure, myocardial infarction, cardiovascular death, and all-cause mortality. However, the roles of metformin in cardiac arrhythmias are still unclear. It has been shown that metformin was associated with decreased incidence of atrial fibrillation in diabetic patients with and without myocardial infarction. This could be due to the effects of metformin on preventing the structural and electrical remodeling of left atrium via attenuating intracellular reactive oxygen species, activating 5′ adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase, improving calcium homeostasis, attenuating inflammation, increasing connexin-43 gap junction expression, and restoring small conductance calcium-activated potassium channels current. For ventricular arrhythmias, in vivo reports demonstrated that activation of 5′ adenosine monophosphate-activated protein kinase and phosphorylated connexin-43 by metformin played a key role in ischemic ventricular arrhythmias reduction. However, metformin failed to show anti-ventricular arrhythmia benefits in clinical trials. In this review, in vitro and in vivo reports regarding the effects of metformin on both atrial arrhythmias and ventricular arrhythmias are comprehensively summarized and presented. Consistent and controversial findings from clinical trials are also summarized and discussed. Due to limited numbers of reports, further studies are needed to elucidate the mechanisms and effects of metformin on cardiac arrhythmias. Furthermore, randomized controlled trials are needed to clarify effects of metformin on cardiac arrhythmias in human.

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Title: Effects of metformin on atrial and ventricular arrhythmias: evidence from cell to patient
Authors: Teerapat Nantsupawat
Wanwarang Wongcharoen
Siriporn C. Chattipakorn
Nipon Chattipakorn
Publication date: 01-12-2020
Publisher: BioMed Central
Keywords: Metformin
Myocardial Infarction
Atrial Fibrillation
Published in: Cardiovascular Diabetology / Issue 1/2020
Electronic ISSN: 1475-2840
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12933-020-01176-4

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