Long-acting insulin is a form of diabetes treatment. This insulin type controls blood sugar consistently for an entire day or longer. Find out how it works.

Basaglar experienced a constant and rapid uptake following its market entry: Its utilization rate grew by 87.4% in 2017 and 72.5% in 2018, the fastest market share growth out of all long-acting ...

Susan Weiner, MS, RDN, CDCES, FADCES, talks with Katelyn O’Brien, PharmD, BCPS, CDCES, BC-ADM, about situations in which an ultra-long-acting insulin may be a good choice. Katelyn O’Brien ...

The quick uptake of the interchangeable long-acting insulin product was seen across the board in all three pharmacy dispensing channels: Retail: increase of 20,270 prescriptions ( P =0.03) Mail ...

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Long-acting basal insulin doesn’t really hit a peak. That can help match how your body would release insulin if it were able to. Ultra-long-acting. Degludec and glargine u-300 (Toujeo). These ...

Long-acting insulin works better than other types of injections for people who need more than pills for their type 2 diabetes, researchers report. Long-acting Levemir insulin given at bedtime and ...

While it’s an effective regime, combining a long-acting ‘basal’ insulin with boluses of fast-acting insulin taken with meals can be burdensome because of the number of injections it requires.

Taking a long-acting form of insulin called Levemir, one of many types of the hormone on the market, resolved those blood sugar swings. Now the 55-year-old Dallas-area resident worries her health ...

Long-acting (basal) insulin. This is sometimes called background insulin because it works for 24 hours or more. You usually take it once a day at the same time.