There is a trend towards examining drugs that treat cardiovascular and metabolic disease in search of modest effects on aging. This is most obvious in the attempted repurposing of antidiabetic drugs such as metformin, acarbose, and canagliflozin, but this also extends to lipid-lowering drugs such as atorvastatin. Now that SGLT2 inhibitors are popular as weight loss drugs for the control of obesity, rather than just antidiabetics, that portfolio is also under consideration. One might consider that a possible common…
Mining Cardiovascular and Metabolic Disease Treatments for Ways to Modestly Slow Aging
There is a trend towards examining drugs that treat cardiovascular and metabolic disease in search of modest effects on aging. This is most obvious in the attempted repurposing of antidiabetic drugs such as metformin, acarbose, and canagliflozin, but this also extends to lipid-lowering drugs such as atorvastatin. Now that SGLT2 inhibitors are popular as weight loss drugs for the control of obesity, rather than just antidiabetics, that portfolio is also under consideration. One might consider that a possible common…