It would not apply to governmental plans such as state and local employee health plans or the Federal Employee Health Benefit Plan
But whether high-risk patients will heed the call to step up their medication regimens is the elephant in the room, he added
Patient education and training for safe self-administration are critical, and gaps in support may impact adherence and outcomes
We also wish to thank Peter Ravn (MedImmune Ltd, Cambridge, UK) for intellectual input into GLP-1 analogue peptide stabilization, Bojana Popovic and Daniel Cannon (MedImmune Ltd, Cambridge, UK) for generating and analysing the peptide homology model, Adrian Podmore (MedImmune Ltd, Cambridge, UK) for conducting the aggregation and stability testing, Richard Kay (LGC, Fordham, UK) for conducting the mass spectrometry metabolites identification work, Marcella Petrone and John Hood (MedImmune Ltd, Cambridge, UK) for performing PK-PD simulations and analysis as well as Christopher Rhodes (MedImmune LLC, Gaithersburg, MD, USA) for his critical review of this manuscript