Patients should also seek medical advice if muscle symptoms are accompanied by systemic features such as fever, unexplained weight loss beyond what is expected from GLP-1 therapy, rash, joint swelling, or other concerning signs that might suggest inflammatory or autoimmune conditions
These divergent findings likely reflect heterogeneity in study design, mechanisms of action of the drugs evaluated, duration of follow-up, and the degree of metabolic phenotyping across populations
Once secreted, GLP-1 has a very short half-life of approximately 1-2 minutes in the circulation, as it is rapidly degraded by the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4)
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Fifteen of the twenty-seven originate in China - a higher share than any previous metabolic pathway