Title
Effects of dosage, comorbidities, and food on Isoniazid pharmacokinetics in peruvian tuberculosis patients
Date Issued
01 December 2014
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Publisher(s)
American Society for Microbiology
Abstract
Poor response to tuberculosis (TB) therapy might be attributable to subtherapeutic levels in drug-compliant patients. Pharmacokinetic (PK) parameters can be affected by several factors, such as comorbidities or the interaction of TB drugs with food. This study aimed to determine the PK of isoniazid (INH) in a Peruvian TB population under observed daily and twice-weekly (i.e., biweekly) therapy. Isoniazid levels were analyzed at 2 and 6 h after drug intake using liquid chromatography mass spectrometric methods. A total of 107 recruited patients had available PK data; of these 107 patients, 42.1% received biweekly isoniazid. The mean biweekly dose (12.8 mg/kg of body weight/day) was significantly lower than the nominal dose of 15 mg/kg/day (P < 0.001), and this effect was particularly marked in patients with concurrent diabetes and in males. The median maximum plasma concentration (Cmax) and area under the concentration-time curve from 0 to 6 h (AUC0-6) were 2.77 mg/liter and 9.71 mg•h/liter, respectively, for daily administration and 8.74 mg/liter and 37.8 mg•h/liter, respectively, for biweekly administration. There were no differences in the Cmax with respect to gender, diabetes mellitus (DM) status, or HIV status. Food was weakly associated with lower levels of isoniazid during the continuation phase. Overall, 34% of patients during the intensive phase and 33.3% during the continuation phase did not reach the Cmax reference value. However, low levels of INH were not associated with poorer clinical outcomes. In our population, INH exposure was affected by weight-adjusted dose and by food, but comorbidities did not indicate any effect on PK. We were unable to demonstrate a clear relationship between the Cmax and treatment outcome in this data set. Twice-weekly weight-adjusted dosing of INH appears to be quite robust with respect to important potentially influential patient factors under program conditions.
Start page
7164
End page
7170
Volume
58
Issue
12
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Salud pública, Salud ambiental Farmacología, Farmacia Epidemiología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84912096005
PubMed ID
Source
Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
ISSN of the container
00664804
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