Characteristics of N-acetyltransferase 2 Phenotype Status and Pharmacokinetic Parameters of Vietnam Pulmonary Tuberculosis Patients

Abstract: We conducted this research to determine the NAT2 gene-phenotype characteristics and pharmacokinetics (PK) parameters of isoniazid among patients with non-MDR pulmonary tuberculosis. Data were collected from 132 patients diagnosed with newly acquired or relapsed tuberculosis and treated at 03 hospitals: Hanoi Lung Hospital, Central Lung Hospital, and National K74 Hospital. PK samples were collected one day from the 10th – 14th day after commencing treatment. The average age of the recruited patients was 45.43 ± 15.76 years; the majority were male (74.24%). The slow and medium acetylator types, as indicated by NAT2 phenotypes, were the two major types (37.88% and 35.6%, respectively). 61.12% of the patients had their Bayesian isoniazid-acetyl isoniazid population PK modeling - determined Cmax value within the therapeutic range of 3 – 6 µg/mL. Acelytator type showed a statistically significant correlation with Cmax.
 Keywords: Isoniazid, pharmacokinetics, Cmax, tuberculosis.