title: Early evening ranitidine administration promotes faster duodenal ulcer healing.
abstract: In a prospective double-blind clinical trial, 141 patients with endoscopically diagnosed duodenal ulcer were randomly assigned to treatment with ranitidine 300 mg, taken either at 6 PM or at 10 PM. After 2 wk of treatment, 52 of 70 patients (74%) in the 6 PM treatment group had healed, compared with 32 of 64 patients (50%) taking ranitidine at 10 PM (p less than 0.01). After 4 wk, the cumulative healing rates were 100% and 94%, respectively, for the 6 PM and 10 PM treatment regimens. These results suggest that ranitidine, taken as a single daily 300-mg dose at 6 PM after dinner, provides more rapid duodenal ulcer healing than the same dose of the drug taken at 10 PM.
authors.affiliation: Gastroenterology Department, DRK Hospital Mark Brandenburg, West Berlin.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Merki
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Witzel
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Hüttemann
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ansari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Panijel
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Harre
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Heim
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Wolbergs
authors.forename: H J
authors.initials: HJ
authors.lastname: Neumann
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Röhmel
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D004311:Double-Blind Method; D004334:Drug Administration Schedule; D004381:Duodenal Ulcer / Q000150:complications / Q000188:drug therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011897:Random Allocation; D011899:Ranitidine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D012907:Smoking / Q000009:adverse effects
chemical_list: D011899:Ranitidine