Do patients have to use Lantus (insulin glargine) at bedtime?

April 2003

Do patients have to use Lantus (insulin glargine) at bedtime?

Lantus is approved only for bedtime dosing.

That's just because the pre-approval studies were conducted only using bedtime dosing...so the FDA approved the drug that way.

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