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								The drugs of choice are triazolam in the short-acting subgroup; lorazepam in the intermediate-acting subgroup; and in the long-acting subgroup, chlordiazepoxide or diazepam for withdrawal states and diazepam for everything else. The Neuropsychiatric Guide to Modern Everyday Psychiatry Michael Alan Taylor 1993 
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								The Official Journal of the European Union OJ is to publish a new, uniform set of authorized export regulations, valid for all short or intermediate-acting barbituric acids. 
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								The Official Journal of the European Union OJ is to publish a new, uniform set of authorized export regulations, valid for all short or intermediate-acting barbituric acids. 
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								A premix insulin regimen combines prandial insulin analogs and the intermediate-acting insulin, NPH, in one injection. 
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								Patients were randomized to 52 weeks of treatment with either prandial inhaled insulin plus bedtime insulin glargine or twice daily premixed biaspart insulin (30% short-acting insulin analog, 70% intermediate-acting NPH insulin), both titrated to perceived treatment goals. MedPageToday.com - medical news plus CME for physicians 2010 
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								You can use intermediate-acting insulin, (Humulin R or the equivalent would probably be good) or just give the shot an hour after you eat. 
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								I had been switched to it from the intermediate-acting Insulatard when Lantus first came out and was hailed as the peakless, clear, 24-hour insulin. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009 
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								In a 24-week study of 564 patients on long-acting, intermediate-acting or pre-mixed insulin, with or without metformin, the addition of JANUVIA (n = 281) reduced A1C 
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								I had been switched to it from the intermediate-acting Insulatard when Lantus first came out and was hailed as the peakless, clear, 24-hour insulin. Discussion Forum - TuDiabetes - A Community for People Touched by Diabetes 2009 
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								Rapid - and short-acting insulin should be clear, and intermediate-acting insulin should be cloudy, but never with large clumps floating in it. 
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