It cannot act on cells and tissues
But raw efficacy numbers do not tell the full story
At that point, pricing may reflect branded-drug rules, insurance coverage decisions, and standard prescribing channels instead of today's patchwork access situation
In the drugs best showing so far, the ATTAIN-1 trial, people taking orforglipron lost on average 12.4% of their baseline weight, a notch below the roughly 14% weight loss seen in similar trials of Novo Nordisks injectable Wegovy and also below the typical results seen with Eli Lillys tirzepatide, a dual GLP-1/GIP medication
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The x(c)-cystine/glutamate antiporter: a potential target for therapy of cancer and other diseases