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TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE
Volume 94, Issue 4, Pages 425-428Publisher
ROYAL SOC TROPICAL MEDICINE
DOI: 10.1016/S0035-9203(00)90128-7
Keywords
quinine; obesity; pharmacokinetics; antimalarial drug
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Obesity can modify the pharmacokinetics of lipophilic drugs. As quinine is a lipophilic drug, this study was conducted to determine whether the pharmacokinetics of quinine is altered in obese subjects. Nine obese Thai men were compared with 8 age-matched lean men. After an oral dose of quinine had been given to the men, plasma quinine concentrations were measured up to 48 h after the dosing. Mean peak plasma quinine concentration in the obese group was significantly lower than that observed in the controls (4.0 +/- 0.8 vs 5.0 +/- 0.3 mgn, P< 0.01). There were no significant differences in time to reach the peak plasma concentration, half-life and total clearance of quinine between the 2 groups. The mean clearances of quinine normalized to the ideal bodyweight (IBW) in the obese and the control groups were not significantly different (0.091 +/- 0.018 vs 0.091 +/- 0024 L/h/kg IBW, P > 0.05). As there are similarities in the total clearance and the clearance of quinine based on IBW, the maintenance dose of quinine should be given to obese patients on the basis of ideal bodyweight, not on total bodyweight.
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