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Postgrad Med J

The cost of a replacement dose is far less than the cost of treating an injection-site infection or absorbing a full month of ineffective treatment

If weight loss plateaus after optimizing a single GLP-1 therapy, adding a second agent should occur only under close medical supervision with clear biomarker tracking

This approach addresses challenges associated with traditional peptides, including limited enzymatic stability in the gastrointestinal tract and serum, inadequate absorption, rapid excretion through hepatic and renal pathways, compromised targeting capabilities arising from the intrinsic rotational flexibility of amino acids, and the potential for inducing antigenicity and unpredictable immune responses

In rare, carefully controlled situations when a patient is facing otherwise life-threatening inflammatory disease the clinician and patient may decide the risk is worth it

doi: Joglar JA, Kapa S, Saarel EV, et al