title: Relationship between dose and plasma level of digoxin and patient characteristics.
abstract: The correlation between the daily dose of digoxin, its plasma level and clinical characteristics of 213 patients receiving beta-acetyldigoxin treatment has been evaluated. After logarithmic transformation of lognormally distributed variables multiple linear regression analysis was performed. Eight predictor variables were chosen: sex, age, height, weight, glycoside dose, creatinine and potassium level in serum and dose of spironolactone. The resulting correlation coefficient was 0.46, i.e. only 100 x r2 = 21.4% of the variance of the steady state digoxin plasma level could be interpreted with the aid of these variables. For only 4 of the 8 variables (age, glycoside dose, serum level of creatinine, and spironolactone dose) were partial coefficients of regression and of correlation significantly different from zero. Almost 80% of the variance could not be accounted for. This finding is in accordance with conclusions in the literature.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D004077:Digoxin / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000097:blood* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007677:Kidney Function Tests; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013148:Spironolactone / Q000494:pharmacology
chemical_list: D013148:Spironolactone; D004077:Digoxin