Their filing dates are later, meaning their 20-year terms extend further
Multiple daily doses add up
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If a patient is on oral levothyroxine, expect that changes in gastric emptying or meal timing could alter levothyroxine absorption, so small TSH shifts are possible after starting a GLP1 agonist and deserve recheck at the next interval
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