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Olmesartan

What the body does with Olmesartan, from the dose to the exit, as its Wikipedia drug infobox records it.

Quoted from the Wikipedia infobox, not yet written up by hand. The order is the usual order of events, not a measured schedule.

OlmesartantakenExitKidney 40%, bile duct 60%

The clock, on a log scale

Each bar runs from the dose to about five half-lives, roughly when 97% of that molecule has been converted or cleared. The scale is logarithmic so minutes and days fit on one line.

  1. doseabsorbed

    Bioavailability

    26% 1

  2. hoursbreakdown

    Metabolism

    Liver (cannot be removed by hemodialysis) 1

  3. half-lifehalf gone

    Elimination half-life

    13 hours 1

  4. exitleaves the body

    Excretion

    Kidney 40%, bile duct 60% 1

Source

  1. Wikipedia, Olmesartan, drug infobox (revision 1358312989), CC BY-SA 4.0. Values quoted as they appear, with wiki markup removed.

Half-lives vary between people, doses and routes. This page explains what the body does with a drug. It is not dosing advice.