title: A Bayesian meta-analysis on published sample mean and variance pharmacokinetic data with application to drug-drug interaction prediction.
abstract: In drug-drug interaction (DDI) research, a two-drug interaction is usually predicted by individual drug pharmacokinetics (PK). Although subject-specific drug concentration data from clinical PK studies on inhibitor or inducer and substrate PK are not usually published, sample mean plasma drug concentrations and their standard deviations have been routinely reported. Hence there is a great need for meta-analysis and DDI prediction using such summarized PK data. In this study, an innovative DDI prediction method based on a three-level hierarchical Bayesian meta-analysis model is developed. The three levels model sample means and variances, between-study variances, and prior distributions. Through a ketoconazle-midazolam example and simulations, we demonstrate that our meta-analysis model can not only estimate PK parameters with small bias but also recover their between-study and between-subject variances well. More importantly, the posterior distributions of PK parameters and their variance components allow us to predict DDI at both population-average and study-specific levels. We are also able to predict the DDI between-subject/study variance. These statistical predictions have never been investigated in DDI research. Our simulation studies show that our meta-analysis approach has small bias in PK parameter estimates and DDI predictions. Sensitivity analysis was conducted to investigate the influences of interaction PK parameters, such as the inhibition constant Ki, on the DDI prediction.
authors.affiliation: Division of Biostatistics, Department of Medicine, School of Medicine, Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana 46023, USA. meyu@iupui.edu
authors.forename: Menggang
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Seongho
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.forename: Zhiping
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hall
authors.forename: Lang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Li
mesh_terms: D000284:Administration, Oral; D001499:Bayes Theorem; D015982:Bias; D003198:Computer Simulation; D051544:Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A; D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System / Q000378:metabolism; D004347:Drug Interactions; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007654:Ketoconazole / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D008297:Male; D008390:Markov Chains; D008874:Midazolam / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000493:pharmacokinetics*; D008954:Models, Biological; D015233:Models, Statistical; D009010:Monte Carlo Method; D015203:Reproducibility of Results
chemical_list: D065607:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme Inhibitors; D004791:Enzyme Inhibitors; D003577:Cytochrome P-450 Enzyme System; C104464:CYP3A protein, human; D051544:Cytochrome P-450 CYP3A; D008874:Midazolam; D007654:Ketoconazole