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Isosorbide Dinitrate

Isosorbide dinitrate is a nitrate medicine taken by mouth as a tablet to prevent angina (chest pain) caused by coronary artery disease.

Brand names IsochronIsordilIsoDitrate
Drug class Nitrate Vasodilator
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Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS
Reviewed by Last reviewed Jul 10, 2026 Content updated Oct 2, 2026
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The clinical label records used on this page are FDA-filed Structured Product Labeling (SPL) retrieved through openFDA. We identified 21 clinical label sets within the page’s selected clinical scope after exact ingredient or ingredient-combination matching and applicable route/form matching. Forms, routes, brands, labelers, strengths, and NDC product-record counts are built separately from matching FDA National Drug Code Directory records. The linked DailyMed document is a representative official source for verification, not the page’s only clinical source. View the linked label on DailyMed →

✓No current FDA shortage listed · checked Oct 8, 2026
Isosorbide Dinitrate at a glance The quick version — the full detail is in the Patient Information Guide below.
Dr. Brian Staiger, PharmD, BCPS
The Pharmacist’s Take By · Clinical pharmacist · Written

Isosorbide dinitrate is a nitrate that prevents angina (chest pain) from coronary artery disease by relaxing blood vessels, mainly veins but also arteries, including the ones that feed the heart, so the heart works less hard; it is an older standby, around since about 1959 and available as a generic. Most people tolerate it, but headache is the side effect they notice, sometimes severe and often returning with each dose, along with lightheadedness. Never combine it with erectile dysfunction medicines such as sildenafil, tadalafil or vardenafil, or with riociguat, because blood pressure can drop severely enough to cause fainting or cut blood flow to the heart.

Clinical pearls

  • Keep the daily medicine-free stretch of at least 14 hours, since dosing around the clock lets your body stop responding.
  • These tablets act too slowly to stop an angina attack already under way, so an extra dose will not help.
  • Alcohol and other blood pressure lowering medicines add to its effect, so stand up slowly and go easy on drinking.
  • If you ever get an erectile dysfunction medicine from telehealth or another doctor, say up front that you take a nitrate.
How you get itPrescription only
Comes asTablet
Earliest FDA record1959
Companies listing it with the FDA18
FDA label last updatedMar 2, 2020
FDA’s strongest warning (boxed)None on the label

Patient information guide A plain-language walkthrough of Isosorbide Dinitrate, written from its FDA label.

What Isosorbide Dinitrate is used for

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Isosorbide dinitrate tablets have one supported use:

  • Preventing angina pectoris (chest pain) due to coronary artery disease. This is the use for the Isosorbide and Isosorbide Dinitrate oral tablets.
  • It is not useful for stopping an angina attack that has already started.

How Isosorbide Dinitrate works

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Isosorbide dinitrate relaxes the muscle in blood vessel walls. It mainly widens veins and also widens arteries. This lowers the amount of blood returning to the heart and eases the pressure the heart pumps against. The coronary arteries widen too.

Nitrates behave differently from many daily medicines. Constant levels in the body lead to tolerance, where the medicine stops working well. Its anti-angina effect returns only after several hours without the drug.

Isosorbide Dinitrate dosage

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The tablets are taken by mouth, usually two or three times a day. Your schedule must include a medicine-free stretch of at least 14 hours each day. This helps prevent tolerance.

  • The lowest dose that works is the goal.
  • Later doses in the day tend to work less well and for a shorter time than the first.
  • Follow your prescriber and the label for your exact schedule.

Dosing details from the FDA-approved label

From the Isosorbide Dinitrate prescribing information (“Dosage and Administration”). Doses are set by your prescriber for your product, condition, kidney function and age — never change a dose on your own.

  • Starting dose (isosorbide dinitrate tablets)
    • 5 mg to 20 mg, two or three times daily
    • A daily dose-free interval of at least 14 hours is advisable to minimize tolerance
  • Maintenance therapy
    • 10 mg to 40 mg, two or three times daily is recommended
    • Some patients may require higher doses
    • A daily dose-free interval of at least 14 hours is advisable to minimize tolerance; the optimal interval will vary with the individual patient, dose and regimen
Read the label’s full dosing text

DOSAGE AND ADMINISTRATION As noted under " CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ," multiple-dose studies with isosorbide dinitrate and other nitrates have shown that maintenance of continuous 24-hour plasma levels results in refractory tolerance. Every dosing regimen for isosorbide dinitrate tablets must provide a daily dose-free interval to minimize the development of this tolerance. With immediate-release isosorbide dinitrate, it appears that one daily dose-free interval must be at least 14 hours long. As also noted under " CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY ," the effects of the second and later doses have been smaller and shorter-lasting than the effects of the first. Large controlled studies with other nitrates suggest that no dosing regimen with isosorbide dinitrate tablets should be expected to provide more than about 12 hours of continuous anti-anginal efficacy per day. As with all titratable drugs, it is important to administer the minimum dose which produces the desired clinical effect. The usual starting dose of isosorbide dinitrate is 5 mg to 20 mg, two or three times daily. For maintenance therapy, 10 mg to 40 mg, two or three times daily is recommended. Some patients may require higher doses. A daily dose-free interval of at least 14 hours is advisable to minimize tolerance. The optimal interval will vary with the individual patient, dose and regimen.

Read the full Dosage and Administration section on DailyMed →

Isosorbide Dinitrate side effects

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Most side effects come from the medicine widening blood vessels and are dose-related.

Common side effects

  • Headache, which can be severe
  • Headache that returns with each daily dose
  • Lightheadedness
  • Low blood pressure (uncommon)
  • Headache, sometimes severe, which can come back with each dose

When to get medical help

  • Faint, pass out or feel severely dizzy, which may mean your blood pressure is too low.
  • Chest pain that gets worse (crescendo angina), which has been reported but is uncommon.
  • Call your doctor if headaches are severe or you cannot tolerate the medicine.
  • Seek urgent help if you take a erectile dysfunction medicine with this drug and feel faint, have chest pain or a very low blood pressure.
  • Seek urgent help for signs of overdose, such as confusion, a pounding headache, vomiting, a slow or irregular heartbeat or trouble breathing.

Fainting, worsening angina and rebound high blood pressure are uncommon but have been reported. Rarely, nitrates cause methemoglobinemia. Call your doctor if you have severe symptoms.

Isosorbide Dinitrate warnings and precautions

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  • Never combine with erectile dysfunction medicines (sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil). The result can be severe low blood pressure, fainting or reduced blood flow to the heart.
  • Never combine with riociguat, which can cause low blood pressure.
  • Benefit in acute heart attack or heart failure has not been established, and the immediate-release tablet is not recommended there because its effects are hard to stop quickly.
  • Low blood pressure can be severe enough that therapy must be stopped.

Isosorbide Dinitrate interactions

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Isosorbide dinitrate can add to the effects of other drugs that widen blood vessels.

  • Sildenafil, tadalafil, vardenafil: contraindicated, risk of severe low blood pressure and fainting.
  • Riociguat: contraindicated, risk of low blood pressure.
  • Alcohol: adds to the blood-vessel-widening effect.
  • Other vasodilators: effects can be additive.

Interactions listed in the FDA-approved label

From the Isosorbide Dinitrate prescribing information (“Drug Interactions”): what the manufacturer studied or reported to the FDA.

  • Other vasodilators: The vasodilating effects of isosorbide dinitrate may be additive with those of other vasodilators.
  • Alcohol: Alcohol, in particular, has been found to exhibit additive vasodilating effects with isosorbide dinitrate.
  • Phosphodiesterase inhibitors in any form: Concomitant use with isosorbide dinitrate is contraindicated. Contraindicated
  • Riociguat (a soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator): Concomitant use with isosorbide dinitrate is contraindicated. Contraindicated
Read the label’s full interactions text

Drug Interactions The vasodilating effects of isosorbide dinitrate may be additive with those of other vasodilators. Alcohol, in particular, has been found to exhibit additive effects of this variety. Concomitant use of isosorbide dinitrate with phosphodiesterase inhibitors in any form is contraindicated (see Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. ). Concomitant use of isosorbide dinitrate with riociguat, a soluble guanylate cyclase stimulator, is contraindicated (see Error! Hyperlink reference not valid. ).

Read the full Drug Interactions section on DailyMed →

Not a complete list. The label covers the interactions the manufacturer studied or reported, and our own interaction database does not cover every medicine either. Bring your full medication list, including vitamins and herbal products, to your pharmacist.

Before taking Isosorbide Dinitrate

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  • Do not use it if you are allergic to isosorbide dinitrate or any ingredient in the tablet.
  • Do not use it if you take erectile dysfunction medicines or riociguat.
  • Tell your prescriber if you have had a heart attack or have heart failure.
  • Share a list of all your medicines, especially blood pressure or vasodilator drugs.

Isosorbide Dinitrate overdose

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Too much can cause very low blood pressure, a pounding headache, confusion, fever, vomiting, a fast or slow heartbeat, fainting, trouble breathing and, in severe cases, seizures, coma or death. Get emergency help right away. Treatment focuses on raising blood volume, such as by lifting the legs or giving IV fluids, and there is no specific antidote. Rarely, a blood problem called methemoglobinemia occurs and is treated with methylene blue.

What Isosorbide Dinitrate does in the body

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Isosorbide dinitrate widens veins more than arteries. This lowers the pressure of blood returning to the heart (preload) and reduces resistance in the arteries (afterload). It also dilates the coronary arteries. Anti-angina effects begin about 1 hour after a dose, and tolerance develops if blood levels stay constant for 24 hours.

How your body processes Isosorbide Dinitrate

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The tablet is almost fully absorbed, but the liver breaks down much of it first, so the amount reaching the blood varies widely. Blood levels peak about an hour after a dose. The drug's half-life is about an hour. It is broken down into two active byproducts, mainly the 5-mononitrate, which lasts about 5 hours.

How to store Isosorbide Dinitrate

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Store at 20° to 25°C (68° to 77°F) . Protect from moisture. Dispense in a tight, light-resistant container.

Written from the FDA-approved label with AI and reviewed by our pharmacy team. How we use AI →

Isosorbide Dinitrate: pharmacist answers to common questions

Quick, plain-English answers to the questions patients ask most about Isosorbide Dinitrate — the kind of thing our pharmacy team would talk through with you at the counter.

What is isosorbide dinitrate for?

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It helps prevent angina, which is chest pain caused by coronary artery disease. It's a preventive medicine. It won't work fast enough to stop an attack that's already happening.

How should I take it?

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Swallow the tablets by mouth, usually two or three times a day as your prescriber directs. Your schedule needs a long break each day, at least 14 hours, with no medicine. That break keeps it from losing its effect.

Why do I get headaches?

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Headache is the most common side effect, and it happens because the medicine widens blood vessels. It can be severe and may return with each dose, especially at higher doses. Tell your doctor if it is hard to tolerate.

Can I take it with Viagra or similar medicines?

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No. Sildenafil, tadalafil and vardenafil must never be combined with isosorbide dinitrate. The combination can cause severe low blood pressure, fainting or reduced blood flow to the heart. Riociguat is also not allowed.

Is it okay to drink alcohol?

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Be careful. Alcohol can add to the blood-vessel-widening effect and lower your blood pressure further. Ask your prescriber what's safe for you.

When should I call my doctor?

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Call if you faint, feel severely dizzy, have worsening chest pain or have very bad headaches. Get emergency help if you suspect you took too much.

Is Isosorbide Dinitrate available over the counter?

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No. Isosorbide Dinitrate is a prescription medicine: every Isosorbide Dinitrate product listed with the FDA is prescription only, so it is not sold over the counter. Your prescriber decides whether it is appropriate for you, and your pharmacist dispenses it.

When was Isosorbide Dinitrate first available?

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The earliest FDA record we hold for Isosorbide Dinitrate is from 1959: its first approval in Drugs@FDA or its earliest product listing in the NDC Directory, whichever is older. Many older medicines were in use before their first formal FDA approval, so this is the earliest date on record, not necessarily when Isosorbide Dinitrate was first used.

Who makes Isosorbide Dinitrate?

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18 companies currently list Isosorbide Dinitrate products in the FDA's NDC Directory, including Advagen Pharma Ltd, Endo USA, Inc., Zydus Lifesciences Limited. That count includes repackagers and distributors as well as manufacturers (companies that sell only the raw ingredient are not counted), so fewer companies actually make it; the label on your bottle names the one that supplied yours.

Answers drafted from the FDA-approved label with AI and reviewed by our pharmacy team. How we use AI →

More about Isosorbide Dinitrate on HelloPharmacist

Detailed data & references for Isosorbide Dinitrate Forms & strengths, pricing, billing codes, manufacturers, safety reports and sourcing — the data behind the page. Most people can stop here. Each section below opens on a tap.

Isosorbide Dinitrate forms and strengths (how it comes)

Isosorbide Dinitrate is available in 1 form. Different forms and brands can have different approved uses, doses, schedules, and directions. Follow the instructions for your exact product, and do not switch forms without guidance from your prescriber or pharmacist.

Need a version that does not list lactose, a gluten source, a dye or gelatin? Inactive ingredients differ by manufacturer: see Isosorbide Dinitrate inactive ingredients by manufacturer.

Tablet

By mouth
Brands Isordil
How this form is used
What it may be used for
  • Isosorbide and Isosorbide Dinitrate tablets are used to prevent angina pectoris due to coronary artery disease.
  • Isosorbide and Isosorbide Dinitrate tablets are not useful for stopping an acute angina attack.
Important instructions
  • Isosorbide and Isosorbide Dinitrate tablets are taken by mouth, usually two or three times daily.
  • Isosorbide and Isosorbide Dinitrate tablets need a daily dose-free interval of at least 14 hours to limit tolerance.
  • Isosorbide and Isosorbide Dinitrate tablets should be used at the lowest dose that works.
Available strengths 5 strengths
128 FDA-listed product records ⓘ

Isosorbide Dinitrate on the U.S. market: products, makers and brands

How Isosorbide Dinitrate appears in the FDA’s National Drug Code Directory — including its dosage forms, strengths, brand names, manufacturers, and FDA-listed product records. These are directory records, not sales or prescription volume.

18 companies list 55 Isosorbide Dinitrate product records with the FDA, mostly as tablet; the earliest marketing or approval year on record is 1959. Brand names on the directory include Isochron, Isordil, IsoDitrate; the rest are generics.

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Dose forms ⓘ
18
Labelers (makers, repackagers, distributors)
2
Brand names
55
FDA-listed product records ⓘ
1959
Earliest FDA record ⓘ

Also listed with the FDA, not a patient dose form: Powder (2) — bulk drug substance sold to compounders/manufacturers and multi-item kits. These aren’t counted in the dose-form total above.

Advagen Pharma Ltd9%
Endo USA, Inc.9%
Zydus Lifesciences Limited9%
Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc.9%
BluePoint Laboratories7%
Northstar Rx LLC7%
Other makers49%

Share of FDA-listed product records by manufacturer — FDA National Drug Code Directory. Record counts are not sales or prescription volume.

How widely Isosorbide Dinitrate is used (Medicaid data)

A general measure of how commonly Isosorbide Dinitrate is prescribed, based on Medicaid — one of the largest public drug programs. The figure below is prescriptions filled in Q1–Q4 2025, summed across every form and brand of the drug.

Think of this as a proxy for how widely Isosorbide Dinitrate is used, drawn from freely available public data. Medicaid is just one program — these numbers don’t include Medicare, other government coverage, or commercial and cash-pay prescriptions, so real-world use is higher than what’s shown here.

67,209
Medicaid prescriptions filled (Q1–Q4 2025)
$2.6M gross Medicaid reimbursement (before mandatory rebates — net cost is lower)

How commonly is Isosorbide Dinitrate prescribed? Of the 1,601 medications we measure, Isosorbide Dinitrate ranks #575 by Medicaid prescriptions — more than 64% of them.

Where Isosorbide Dinitrate ranks among the drugs we measure · Q1–Q4 2025 · neighbors ±5

Utilization by Isosorbide Dinitrate product

Pick a product to see its own Medicaid numbers. Each chip is one clinical product — a specific strength & dosage form as defined by RxNorm — with brand-name and generic versions combined.

The 10 mg oral tablet is the most-dispensed Isosorbide Dinitrate product — about 35% of these Medicaid prescriptions.

isosorbide dinitrate 10 MG Oral Tablet Most dispensed

23,482 Medicaid prescriptions (Q1–Q4 2025) 35% of Isosorbide Dinitrate prescriptions shown $676,119 gross reimbursement (before rebates) ≈ $29 per prescription (gross)

Summed across the 11 of 44 listed NDC products with Medicaid activity — every brand and generic of this exact strength & form. RxNorm 381056

isosorbide dinitrate 20 MG Oral Tablet

22,485 Medicaid prescriptions (Q1–Q4 2025) 33% of Isosorbide Dinitrate prescriptions shown $716,543 gross reimbursement (before rebates) ≈ $32 per prescription (gross)

Summed across the 10 of 34 listed NDC products with Medicaid activity — every brand and generic of this exact strength & form. RxNorm 206842

isosorbide dinitrate 30 MG Oral Tablet

11,380 Medicaid prescriptions (Q1–Q4 2025) 17% of Isosorbide Dinitrate prescriptions shown $359,773 gross reimbursement (before rebates) ≈ $32 per prescription (gross)

Summed across the 7 of 16 listed NDC products with Medicaid activity — every brand and generic of this exact strength & form. RxNorm 197839

isosorbide dinitrate 5 MG Oral Tablet

7,667 Medicaid prescriptions (Q1–Q4 2025) 11% of Isosorbide Dinitrate prescriptions shown $211,394 gross reimbursement (before rebates) ≈ $28 per prescription (gross)

Summed across the 8 of 23 listed NDC products with Medicaid activity — every brand and generic of this exact strength & form. RxNorm 314055

isosorbide dinitrate 40 MG Oral Tablet

2,195 Medicaid prescriptions (Q1–Q4 2025) 3% of Isosorbide Dinitrate prescriptions shown $641,172 gross reimbursement (before rebates) ≈ $292 per prescription (gross)

Summed across the 3 of 9 listed NDC products with Medicaid activity — every brand and generic of this exact strength & form. RxNorm 197840

Shares are of the Medicaid prescriptions shown here. Product grouping follows RxNorm (the National Library of Medicine’s drug terminology), so “one product” means one strength & dosage form regardless of manufacturer. Dollar figures are gross Medicaid reimbursement before mandatory rebates — rebates (often large, especially for brand-name drugs) are confidential, so actual net cost to Medicaid is lower than shown.

Source: Medicaid State Drug Utilization Data (CMS), aggregated by generic ingredient — summed across every NDC (all brands, strengths, salt forms and dosage forms) of Isosorbide Dinitrate, and across all states and both fee-for-service and managed-care claims. A general popularity signal; it excludes Medicare, commercial insurance and cash prescriptions, so it is not total U.S. use. Based on the 39 of 126 listed Isosorbide Dinitrate NDCs with Medicaid activity.

Compare Isosorbide Dinitrate products

A representative set of FDA-listed product records for Isosorbide Dinitrate — across manufacturers, strengths, and dosage forms, grouped by form with each product’s manufacturer and how the FDA approved it. The same medicine may be made and packaged by different companies, so a single drug can have many directory entries. (It’s also why a refill can look different — a new shape, color, or box — even though it contains the same medication.)

Showing 55 of 55 products — FDA National Drug Code Directory. See every product, package size and price: browse all 55 Isosorbide Dinitrate NDCs →

Isosorbide Dinitrate recall history

A recall is when a specific batch of a medicine is pulled from the market — usually a manufacturing issue, not a problem with the drug itself. Class I is most serious, Class III least.

The FDA’s enforcement reports list no Isosorbide Dinitrate recalls since July 2021.

✅No Isosorbide Dinitrate recalls on record since July 2021

Source: FDA enforcement (recall) reports, via openFDA; our copy was last updated Oct 8, 2026.

RxNorm Concept Web — From Ingredient to Every Form and Strength

This page starts with one ingredient concept (IN). The branches below show its dose-form concepts (SCDF), then the available clinical drug and strength concepts (SCD). Combination products remain separate concepts with their own pages.

Ingredient (IN) Isosorbide Dinitrate RxCUI 6058 7 dose forms · 14 strengths
  1. Dose form (SCDF) Chewable Tablet RxCUI 381053 No current FDA listing
  2. Dose form (SCDF) Extended Release Oral Capsule RxCUI 381037 No current FDA listing
    Clinical drug / strength (SCD) 40 MG RxCUI 314040
  3. Dose form (SCDF) Extended Release Oral Tablet RxCUI 381040 No current FDA listing
    Clinical drug / strength (SCD) 20 MG RxCUI 358356 40 MG RxCUI 311194
  4. Dose form (SCDF) Injectable Solution RxCUI 381043 No current FDA listing
    Clinical drug / strength (SCD) 0.5 MG/ML RxCUI 104427 1 MG/ML RxCUI 104429
  5. Dose form (SCDF) Oral Spray RxCUI 381045 No current FDA listing
    Clinical drug / strength (SCD) 1.25 MG/ACTUAT RxCUI 104428
  6. Dose form (SCDF) Oral Tablet RxCUI 378739 In current FDA listings
    Clinical drug / strength (SCD) 5 MG RxCUI 314055 10 MG RxCUI 381056 20 MG RxCUI 206842 30 MG RxCUI 197839 40 MG RxCUI 197840
  7. Dose form (SCDF) Sublingual Tablet RxCUI 381046 No current FDA listing
    Clinical drug / strength (SCD) 2.5 MG RxCUI 197838 5 MG RxCUI 197841 10 MG RxCUI 197837

Look up RxCUI 6058 in the RxCUI Atlas →

RxNorm is the U.S. National Library of Medicine’s normalized drug vocabulary. Its concept hierarchy can include forms that are not currently marketed; the status on each branch compares that concept with current FDA listings. RxCUIs identify vocabulary concepts, not individual packages or manufacturers.

💵 What Isosorbide Dinitrate costs pharmacies (NADAC benchmark)

The national average invoice price pharmacies pay for the drug itself, from CMS's NADAC survey (data as of Sep 30, 2026). This is a supply-cost benchmark — not a retail price and not what you'd pay at the counter.

FormStrengthPharmacy acquisition benchmark
Tablet · Oral 10 mg $0.154 per tablet NDC details & price history
Tablet · Oral 20 mg $0.199 per tablet NDC details & price history
Tablet · Oral 5 mg $0.177 per tablet NDC details & price history
Tablet · Oral 40 mg $3.31 per tablet NDC details & price history
Why show this? Your out-of-pocket cost depends on insurance, pharmacy markup, and discounts — but the acquisition benchmark tells you whether the medication itself is inexpensive or costly, which strengths cost more per dose, and whether a cash-price quote is in a reasonable range. Each row links to the NDC-level record with its full price history.

Source: CMS National Average Drug Acquisition Cost (NADAC), a survey of retail pharmacy invoice prices. Benchmarks shown are the range across package sizes of a representative product for each form and strength — other manufacturers' products may differ.

Isosorbide Dinitrate brand names

Isosorbide Dinitrate is sold under 3 brand names in the FDA directory — Isochron, Isordil, IsoDitrate. A brand and its generic contain the same active ingredient; the brand name belongs to one company's product.

Isochron Isordil IsoDitrate

Who makes Isosorbide Dinitrate: manufacturers and labelers

18 companies list Isosorbide Dinitrate products with the FDA. By number of product records, the largest are Advagen Pharma Ltd, Endo USA, Inc., Zydus Lifesciences Limited. Labelers include manufacturers and repackagers; the product in your bottle depends on which one your pharmacy stocks.

Advagen Pharma Ltd 5 Endo USA, Inc. 5 Zydus Lifesciences Limited 5 Zydus Pharmaceuticals (USA) Inc. 5 BluePoint Laboratories 4 Northstar Rx LLC 4 AvPAK 3 Golden State Medical Supply, Inc. 3 Hikma Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. 3 NCS HealthCare of KY, LLC dba Vangard Labs 3 Sandoz Inc. 3 American Health Packaging 2 Cardinal Health 107, LLC 2 Major Pharmaceuticals 2 Oceanside Pharmaceuticals 2 Proficient Rx LP 2 Bryant Ranch Prepack 1 Remedyrepack Inc. 1

Isosorbide Dinitrate drug class (RxNorm)

Isosorbide Dinitrate belongs to the Nitrate Vasodilator class.

Pharmacologic class Nitrate Vasodilator
Drug family (ATC) Organic nitrates, Muscle relaxants

Classified by RxNorm RxClass — the U.S. National Library of Medicine's standardized drug-classification service (Established Pharmacologic Class from the FDA, the ATC drug family from the WHO, and mechanism of action). Reference only, not medical advice.

Sources for this Isosorbide Dinitrate page

Core label, product, RxNorm, safety, and utilization data on this page come from the sources identified below. AI-written, editorial, and licensed sections are labeled separately.

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FDA-filed drug labels (SPL) Uses, dosing, warnings & side effects from SPL records retrieved through openFDA; the linked representative set can be verified on DailyMed. ✓ Linked label effective Mar 2, 2020
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Forms, brands & labelersAggregated from ingredient-matched FDA National Drug Code Directory product records for Isosorbide Dinitrate.
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Real-world reportsThe FDA Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS), served through openFDA.
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Recalls & shortagesopenFDA drug-enforcement reports and the FDA drug-shortage database.
🧾 Clinical label set — FDA-filed SPL labels retained for Isosorbide Dinitrate after exact ingredient or ingredient-combination matching and applicable route/form matching
Clinical labels in scope
21
Finished products in the current FDA directory
55
Companies listing them (makers, repackagers, distributors)
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FDA labeler codes behind them ⓘ
18
Linked representative label ⓘ
Oceanside Pharmaceuticals
Linked label effective
Mar 2, 2020
Composite sections available
18
Linked SPL Set ID
723d9f78-9d77-4575-af27-1aa117e6b8d7
Linked SPL Document ID
723d9f78-9d77-4575-af27-1aa117e6b8d7
Open the linked representative label on DailyMed ↗

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