The 24 h urinary excretion of paracetamol and its conjugates after oral administration of about 15 mg/kg was studied in 24 Chinese and 24 Indian healthy young adult male volunteers living in Singapore. The Indians excreted a significantly lower fraction of sulphate conjugate (28.9% compared to 35.9% in the Chinese), and a correspondingly higher fraction as glucuronide conjugate (62.2% compared to 54.5% in the Chinese). There was no difference between the ethnic groups in terms of the urinary recovery of unchanged paracetamol (Indians 3.4%, Chinese 3.6%), glutathione-derived cysteine (Indians 2.3% and Chinese 2.2%) and mercapturic acid (Indians 3.6%, Chinese 3.8%) conjugates. The total fraction of administered paracetamol recovered in the urine was 84.7% and 85.7% in the Indian and the Chinese groups, respectively. Although the total glutathione derived conjugates recovered in the two ethnic groups were similar (Indians 5.9%, Chinese 6%), the values were lower than those reported previously for Caucasians in Scotland (9.3%).
The pharmacokinetics of phenytoin was studied in 66 epileptic Chinese children and adults. The data were analysed by the population approach, using the non-linear mixed effect model, in the MULTI (ELS) program. There was no age or gender-related effect on either the apparent maximum elimination rate (kmax) or Michaelis-Menten constant (KM). Kmax was related to body weight 0.656. The population pharmacokinetics was similar in children and adults. Kmax and KM were estimated to be 30.72 mg.kg-0.656 day-1 and 2.307 mg.l-1, respectively. Kmax was higher than reported values, and KM was comparable to that reported in a study in Japanese, but was much lower than that reported in studies of European patients. The inter-individual variability of KM (CV 65.58%) was substantially higher than that of kmax (CV 28.49%), and the residual (intra-individual) variability was found 21.33% (CV).
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