Post‐therapy plasma concentrations of quetiapine in Taiwanese patients

Huang, Cho-Yin; Chen, Chia-Ru; Lin, Shih‐Ku

doi:10.1002/npr2.12303

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“…In Taiwan, our group performed a TDM study of 107 patients with various diagnoses [62]. The mean daily dose of quetiapine was 175.9 ± 184.4 mg (25-800 mg).…”

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Racial/Ethnic Differences in the Pharmacokinetics of Antipsychotics: Focusing on East Asians

Lin

2022

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Empirical clinical studies have suggested that East Asian patients may require lower dosages of psychotropic drugs, such as antipsychotics, lithium, and antidepressants, than non-Asians. Both the pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic properties of a drug can affect the clinical response of an illness. The levels of antipsychotics used for the treatment of schizophrenia may affect patient clinical responses; several factors can affect these levels, including patient medication adherence, body weight (BW) or body mass index, smoking habits, and sex. The cytochrome P450 (CYP) system is a major factor affecting the blood levels of antipsychotics because many antipsychotics are metabolized by this system. There were notable genetic differences between people of different races. In this study, we determined the racial or ethnic differences in the metabolic patterns of some selected antipsychotics by reviewing therapeutic drug monitoring studies in East Asian populations. The plasma concentrations of haloperidol, clozapine, quetiapine, aripiprazole, and lurasidone, which are metabolized by specific CYP enzymes, were determined to be higher, under the same daily dose, in East Asian populations than in Western populations.

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