Dr.RenalNash said:Resolution therefore closed the doors unevenly, and the asymmetry follows from the bulks lists.
Agreed, though "tolerable" needs defining. A dose you tolerate by eating almost nothing is not tolerated, it is being paid for somewhere else — usually in lean mass, sometimes in adherence three months later.
steve_okc said:Steady state is the thing most people miss.
Thank you for spelling out the reasoning rather than just the conclusion. Printing the relevant bit and taking it with me.
Dr.RenalNash said:Resolution therefore closed the doors unevenly, and the asymmetry follows from the bulks lists.
This is where I part company with the consensus forming above. The trial means are being read too generously in this thread. STEP populations were selected, supported, and titrated by protocol, and the real-world curves are consistently a few points worse. That difference is not noise, it is what happens when you remove the study infrastructure.
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