This means that you need to inject just once every seven days
Most providers instruct patients to draw both peptides into a single insulin syringe for convenience
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These agents mimic the biological action of the native incretin hormone GLP-1 but are structurally modified to resist degradation by the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase 4 (DPP-4), thereby extending their half-life and duration of action (Zheng et al., 2024