Body Weight as a Determining Factor in the Predominance of Adverse Drug Reactions Induced by Fixed-Dose Adalimumab Injections in Female Patients in a Korean Hospital Setting

Kim, Kwi Suk; Choi, Young Hee; Moon, Aree; Kim, Sang Geon

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Body Weight as a Determining Factor in the Predominance of Adverse Drug Reactions Induced by Fixed-Dose Adalimumab Injections in Female Patients in a Korean Hospital Setting

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Department of Pharmacy, Seoul National University Hospital, Seoul 03080, Korea

College of Pharmacy, Dongguk University Seoul, Goyang-si, Gyeonggi-do 10326, Korea

Duksung Innovative Drug Center, College of Pharmacy, Duksung Women’s University, Seoul 01369, Korea

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College of Pharmacy and Research Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Seoul National University, 1 Gwanak-ro, Gwanak-gu, Seoul 08826, Korea

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J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9(2), 461; https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020461

Received: 10 January 2020 / Revised: 31 January 2020 / Accepted: 3 February 2020 / Published: 7 February 2020

(This article belongs to the Section Pharmacology)

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Adalimumab is used at 40-mg dose to treat systemic inflammatory diseases. Given the impact of adverse drug reactions (ADRs), which particularly result in the discontinuation of adalimumab therapy in female patients, this study examined whether sex affects the frequency and type of ADRs induced by adalimumab. In this study, the prescription records and laboratory data of patients aged ≥19 years who had been admitted to the Seoul National University Hospital (SNUH) and prescribed adalimumab were analyzed using an electronic medical record database. The analysis revealed that female patients more frequently experienced adalimumab-induced ADRs compared with male patients (63.2% vs. 52.2%). The incidence of ADRs was significantly higher in female patients with ankylosing spondylitis or rheumatoid arthritis than in male patients with similar conditions (81.5% vs. 60.7% or 64.4% vs. 50.0%, respectively). The median body weight (BW) was lower in female patients than in male patients (54.0 vs. 66.0 kg). Moreover, the incidence of ADRs in patients with a BW of <54.0 kg (i.e., the median female BW) was higher than for those with a BW of ≥54.0 kg, in both males and females. Our results suggested that the predominance of ADRs induced by adalimumab in females was because of their relatively lower BW. This suggests the importance of BW as a determining factor in sex disparity of ADR occurrences. View Full-Text

Keywords: adalimumab; adverse drug reaction; gender; body weight; skin; infection; test abnormality

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Kim, K.S.; Choi, Y.H.; Moon, A.; Kim, S.G. Body Weight as a Determining Factor in the Predominance of Adverse Drug Reactions Induced by Fixed-Dose Adalimumab Injections in Female Patients in a Korean Hospital Setting. J. Clin. Med. 2020, 9, 461. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020461

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Kim KS, Choi YH, Moon A, Kim SG. Body Weight as a Determining Factor in the Predominance of Adverse Drug Reactions Induced by Fixed-Dose Adalimumab Injections in Female Patients in a Korean Hospital Setting. Journal of Clinical Medicine. 2020; 9(2):461. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020461

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Kim, Kwi S., Young H. Choi, Aree Moon, and Sang G. Kim. 2020. "Body Weight as a Determining Factor in the Predominance of Adverse Drug Reactions Induced by Fixed-Dose Adalimumab Injections in Female Patients in a Korean Hospital Setting" Journal of Clinical Medicine 9, no. 2: 461. https://doi.org/10.3390/jcm9020461

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