Getting the concentration right matters not just for efficacy but for avoiding unnecessarily concentrated solutions that could cause injection site reactions, an issue that autoimmune patients with skin sensitivity may be more prone to
Cutting corners on supplies often leads to contamination, degradation, or inaccurate dosing
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Side effects, which vary by drug, include myopathy and peripheral neuropathy (telbivudine), kidney toxicity and dysfunction (tenofovir and adefovir), decreased bone mineral density (tenofovir), and lactic acidosis in patients with liver disease (entecavir) (Scaglione 2012)
Figure 3 presents medications based on monoagonists, dual agonists, antagonists and triple agonists