Bayes PK Models and Applications to Drug Interaction Simulations
Lang Li
Associate Professor
Division of Biostatistics/Clinical Pharmacology
School of Medicine
Indiana University
What is a drug-drug interaction?
Drug-drug interaction (DDI) is usually referred as one drug’s pharmacokinetics (absorption, distribution, elimination, or its effect) is affected by the existence of another drug.
DDI: Substrate and Inducer/Inhibitor
Possible reasons of a DDI:
(1) plasma and/or tissue binding
(2) carrier-mediated transport across plasma membranes
(3) metabolism
Rowland and Toner (1997) Clinical Pharmacokinetics
Ito et al. (1998) Pharmacy. Review
A Midazolam/Ketoconazole Interaction Example
Statistical Literature Review (Nonlinear Models)
Likelihood based parametric approach: Beal and Sheiner, 1982; Steimer et al. 1987 and Lindstrom and Bates 1992.
Likelihood based nonparametric or semi-parametric approach: Mallet et. al. 1988, Davidian and Gallant 1993, Li et al. 2002.
Likelihood based parametric model with measurement error, Higgins and Davidian 1998, and Li et al. 2004.
Bayesian approach: Wakefield et al. 1996, 1997, 2000; Muller and Rosner 1998, 2002; Gelman et al. 1996.
Nonlinear models for subject-specific level data.
Drug Interaction Model Development
Literature Data Extraction (Data Mining) - A Midazolam (MDZ) Example
Result Comparison with DiDB (number of numerical data in abstracts)
Drug Interaction Model Development
Initial Drug Interaction PK Model - A Midazolam/Ketoconazole Example
Published Ketoconazole Data Sets (sample mean profiles)
Published MDZ Data Sets (sample mean profiles)
Bayes Meta Analysis on Sample Mean Data
MCMC vs Stochastic-EM (SEM)
DDI Prediction
Drug Interaction Model Development
A DDI Prediction Assessment Proposal
Probabilistic Rule
Pr [AUCR in (-inf, 1.25)] > 0.90 clinical insignificant inhibition
Pr [AUCR in (2.00, inf)] > 0.90 clinical significant inhibition
Otherwise inconclusive
Population-Average vs Subject-Specific DDI
Equivalence Test for Simulated and Reported DDI
Reported MDZ(IV)/KETO(PO) interaction: AUCR = 5.1 +/- 0.74, with dose combination 2/200mg (Tsunoda et al. 1999)
How many simulations do we have to run?
What is our maximum power to test the equivalence?