Purpose: The pharmacology, pharmacokinetics, efficacy and tolerability, safety, drug interactions, dosage and administration, cost, and place in therapy of insulin detemir are reviewed.

Use of the long-acting insulin analogs glargine and detemir does not reduce the risk of diabetic ketoacidosis in children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM), compared with the ...

Levemir (insulin detemir) has a shorter duration of action than other long-acting basal insulins like Sanofi's Lantus (insulin glargine) and biosimilars and Novo Nordisk's newer product Tresiba ...

Levemir (insulin detemir) is safe to receive while pregnant or breastfeeding. However, factors such as the form you get or the condition the drug helps treat may determine whether you should ...

You may need to read it again. Diabetes mellitus is a condition where your pancreas does not produce enough insulin to control your blood sugar (glucose) level. Extra insulin is therefore needed.

a DB = double-blind, DM = diabetes mellitus, HbA 1c = glycosylated hemoglobin, MC = multicenter, NPH = isophane insulin human, NR = not recorded, OL = open-label, PG = parallel-group, R = randomized.