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(2) Fasting that starts at a self-determined time of the day and lasts for a fixed number of hours consisting of both human activity (daytime) and inactivity (nighttime) periods (e.g., 16:8 intermittent fasting that starts at 8 pm and ends at noon)
2 GLP-1RAs taken once weekly may take four to five weeks to achieve steady state, while clinical effectiveness may be longer depending on many factors such as age, sex, body weight, and liver and kidney function
However, using an on-treatment exposure definition that followed patients while they were continuously exposed to the study drugs likely mitigated this bias