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What This Regulatory Difference Means for Patients Patients considering compounded weight loss medications should understand that these products, although prepared by licensed pharmacies using pharmaceutical ingredients, have not been evaluated by the FDA as finished drugs
During the period for patient inclusion in our study (20172021), 8596.5% of all patients receiving drugs for diabetes in Sweden (as registered in the National Prescription Drug Register) were included in the register [20,21,22,23,24]
Oral semaglutide is the first GLP1-RA developed for oral administration and it was approved for the treatment of T2D in adults by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2020 [16]