Pharmacists must counsel patients on the presentation of EDKA, including nausea, vomiting, shortness of breath, lethargy, loss of appetite, fatigue, and abdominal pain
mock dosing with isotonic saline
If patients do not tolerate a dose during dose escalation, consider delaying dose escalation
For extended protocols or higher doses, a 100 mg vial is more cost-effective
A meta-analysis of 113 RCTs comprising 33,167 patients in the GLP-1 RA cohort and 26,683 in the comparator cohort revealed no significant elevation in pancreatitis or pancreatic cancer risk relative to control groups (Mantel-Haenszel odds ratio [MH-OR] of 0.93 and 0.94, respectively), but identified a notable increase in cholelithiasis risk (MH-OR, 1.30) [58]
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