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in early 2025, a small group of GLP-1 medications accounted for approximately 21% of total prescription costs for large pharmacy coalitions, a massive jump from just 1% in 2020

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In a matched cohort study by Odah et al., patients on GLP-1 RAs had a greater rate of incomplete passage of the VCE through the small intestine (23.5% vs