The decision to take these drugs at the same time can be evaluated by the prescriber on an individual basis, as doing so may require monitoring
If patients receive GLP1 medications outside their primary health system (for example, from telehealth) or change providers during the treatment, the EHR data collected in our study may not capture the full course of treatment, and this may explain our observation of generally shorter treatment durations, and hence less weight loss, recorded in EHRs
In laboratory research it is used as a combined preparation for working with its three components at once, in the same models where those peptides are individually investigated tissue repair, angiogenesis, cell migration, and extracellular-matrix signaling
But the math shows why time-limited coverage is appealing to payers that struggle to pay for beneficiaries GLP-1 prescriptions, said Michelle Gourdine, chief medical officer for the pharmacy benefit manager CVS Caremark