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For a person with a confirmed deficiency, the documented dangers of leaving it untreated generally outweigh the rare, minor risks of the injections themselves
1 Engs paper, published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry , noted something strange: exendin-4 shared 53% of its amino acid sequence with a human gut hormone called glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1), which had been characterized just a few years earlier
This progression is similar to what researchers observe with the GLP-1 onset timeline across all medications in this class
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