These products have not been tested in large, randomized clinical trials, may vary in strength or purity, and may not even contain the same active ingredient as FDA-approved semaglutide, said Fatima Cody Stanford, MD, MPH, an obesity medicine specialist at Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School, both in Boston
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Generic semaglutide also tends to be slightly cheaper than tirzepatide
Figure 2 presents the observed overall mean semaglutide concentrations and variability (90% concentration ranges for within and between individuals) during and following 10 days of oral dosing at various dosing conditions
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The analysis is based on tirzepatide eligibility criteria and results from the SURMOUNT-1 trial, published in 2022 in The New England Journal of Medicine , which showed that tirzepatide, approved last year by the FDA for the treatment of obesity, reduced body weight up to an average of 21% on the highest 15-milligram dosages along with reductions in several cardiovascular risk factors such as blood pressure and cholesterol