Normal fat mass cannot be reliably estimated in typical pharmacokinetic studies.

Purpose: An influential covariate for pharmacokinetics is (body) size. Recently, the method of estimation of normal fat mass (NFM) has been advocated. Here, the relative contribution of fat mass, estimated as a fraction fat (Ffat), is used to explain differences in pharmacokinetic parameters. This c...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:European Journal of Clinical Pharmacology Vol. 77; no. 5; pp. 727 - 734
Main Authors: Wasmann, Roeland E., Svensson, Elin M., Schalkwijk, Stein J., Brüggemann, Roger J., ter Heine, Rob
Format: equations & formulas research tables/charts Journal Article
Published: Springer Nature May2021
Online Access:View this record in EBSCOhost