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B F Johnson1, S M Rodin, K Hoch
1Division of Clinical Pharmacology, University of Massachusetts Medical Center, Worcester 01605.
Abstract:
Sixteen healthy volunteers were regularly given 0.4 mg of digoxin daily as two capsules with breakfast. After ten days during which breakfast was supplemented with 11 g of bran fiber, steady-state predose mean serum digoxin was lower (0.89 +/- 0.19 versus 0.84 +/- 0.18 ng/mL, P less than .05) and mean 24-hour area under curve determination was lower (30.5 +/- 6.1 versus 28.4 +/- 6.0 ng X hr/mL, P less than .05) than during the control period without bran. Height and time of peak serum digoxin, and 24-hour urinary digoxin were not significantly different. The 6 to 7% reduction in digoxin absorption from capsules is less than that reported from tablets and is probably clinically unimportant.
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