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Ozempic is similarly priced
Though useful for accounting for study endpoint events in a rapidly fatal disease (i.e., death versus study completion versus trial withdrawal), combined outcomes suffer from issues with cross-trial validity and weighting the importance of relative contributions to outcome (death versus disease progression versus loss of follow-up) in creating the summed rank model [51]
[DOI] [PubMed] [Google Scholar] Watson WA, Litovitz TL, Klein-Schwartz W, Rodgers GC, Jr, Youniss J, Reid N, Rouse WG, Rembert RS, Borys D
For injectable formulations, this can be complex because manufacturers must prove their products work identically to the original subcutaneous semaglutide formulations
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