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Comparing the effectiveness of berberine and metformin in treating type 2 diabetes
Randomized trials directly comparing berberine with metformin include a small 3-month pilot (Yin et al.) that randomized newly diagnosed type 2 diabetes patients to berberine or metformin and found co...
Randomized controlled trials (RCTs) have tested several herbal nutraceuticals—most extensively berberine—and a handful of multiherb formulas against placebo and, less often, against metformin; the evi...
Multiple randomized controlled trials and meta-analyses have tested -vs-metformin">berberine, , and in people with prediabetes or type 2 diabetes; overall the literature shows signals of modest glycem...
directly comparing berberine to metformin are few and small: the oft‑cited head‑to‑head pilot by randomized 36 newly diagnosed patients to for about three months and reported comparable glycemic reduc...
Randomized trials and pooled analyses show that berberine produces meaningful short-term reductions in HbA1c, fasting plasma glucose (FPG) and postprandial glucose that are frequently similar in magni...