Medication Dosage in Overweight and Obese Children

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Medication Dosage in Overweight and Obese Children

title: Medication Dosage in Overweight and Obese Children

creator: Matson, Kelly L.; Horton, Evan R.; Capino, Amanda C.

subject: Drug dosage calculations

subject: Pediatrics

subject: Obesity

department: Pharmacy

advisor: First name Last name

abstract: Approximately 31.8% of U.S. children ages 2 to 19 years are considered overweight or obese. This creates significant challenges to dosing medications that are primarily weight based (mg/kg) and in predicting pharmacokinetics parameters in pediatric patients. Obese individuals generally have a larger volume of distribution for lipophilic medications.

date: 2017-01-31

type: Faculty Publications

identifier: DOI: 10.583/1551-6776-22.1.81

citation: Journal of Pediatric Pharmacology and Therapeutics, 2017, vol. 22, issue 1, P.81-83

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