Study to investigate safety, tolerability, pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of BI 44847 in Japanese healthy volunteers

Inclusion Criteria:

• Subjects will be healthy male volunteers who meet the criteria below:

  • Persons without clinically remarkable findings or clinically evident complications based on their concurrent illness, past medical history, physical examination, vital signs (blood pressure, pulse rate, and body temperature), 12-lead ECG, and laboratory test results
  • Persons who are 20 or older and 35 or younger
  • Persons with a BMI 18.5 kg/m2 or more and 25.0 kg/m2 less
  • Persons who are willing to participate in this trial before study initiation and who give their written consent in accordance with Good Clinical Practice

Exclusion Criteria:

• Any finding of the medical examination (including BP, Pulse Rate (PR) and ECG) deviating from normal and of clinical relevance
• Any evidence of a clinically relevant concomitant disease
• Gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, respiratory, cardiovascular, metabolic, immunological or hormonal disorders
• Diseases of the central nervous system (such as epilepsy) or psychiatric disorders or neurological disorders
• History of relevant orthostatic hypotension, fainting spells or blackouts
• Chronic or relevant acute infections
• History of relevant allergy/hypersensitivity (including allergy to drug or its excipients)
• Intake of drugs with a long half-life (>24 hours) within at least one month or less than 10 half-lives of the respective drug prior to administration or during the trial
• Use of any drugs within 10 days prior to administration or during the trial
• Participation in another trial with an investigational drug within four months prior to administration or during the trial
• Smoker (>10 cigarettes or >3 cigars or >3 pipes/day)
• Inability to refrain from smoking on trial days
• Alcohol abuse (more than 60 g/day)
• Drug abuse
• Blood donation (more than 100 mL) within four weeks prior to administration or during the trial
• Excessive physical activities (within one week prior to administration or during the trial)
• Any laboratory value outside the reference range that is of clinical relevance
• Inability to comply with dietary regimen of study centre 19. A history of additional risk factors for torsade de pointes (e.g., heart failure, hypokalemia, family history of long QT syndrome)
• The use of concomitant medications that prolong the QT/QTc interval
• Any ECG value outside of the reference range and of clinical relevance including, but not limited to QRS interval >120 ms
• Elevated urinary glucose levels at screening (>15 mg/dl)