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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2024 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Pharmacol. 2023 Jun;63(Suppl 1):S137–S158. doi: 10.1002/jcph.2282

Table 2.

Maternal plasma/serum and cord blood concentrations of sertraline and N-desmthylsertraline at deliverya

Sertraline N-desmethylsertraline
Study N Dose (mg/d) Study Location Maternal Concentration at Delivery (ng/mL) Cord Concentration at Delivery (ng/mL) Cord:Maternal Ratio Maternal Concentration at Delivery (ng/mL) Cord Concentration at Delivery (ng/mL) Cord:Maternal Ratio
Hostetter, et al. (2000) 28 1 175 USA 45 21 0.47 320 194 0.61
Rampono, et al. (2004) 31 4 50 Australia 10.5 (9–64) 10 (5–24) 0.7 (0.4–1.2) 37.5 (21–189) 26.5 (13–93) 0.63 (0.46–0.81)
Sit, et al. (2011) 38 9 Corrected to 50 mg/d (50–200) USA 8.1 (3.9–16) 2.7 (1.5–6.7) 0.3 (0.19–0.99) 25.9 (10.8–48.5) 8.2 (3.4–19) 0.38 (0.28–0.60)
Rampono, et al. (2009) 36,b 6 50 (44–100) Australia 15 (11–45) 6 (4–11) 0.33 (0.29–0.36) 45 (35–91) 16 (12–26) 0.40 (0.34–0.50)
Hendrick, et al. (2003) 29 11 Corrected to 50 mg/d (25–100) USA 10 (3–44) 7 (1–7) 0.27 (0.1–1) 51 (5–148) 15.4 (6–36) 0.28 (0.1–4)
Paulzen, et al. (2017) 43,b 6 75 (43.75–100) Germany 15.4 (11.88–20.88) 5.7 (4.52–7.05) 0.36 (0.28–0.49) -- -- --
Colombo, et al. (2020) 40,a 24 75 (50–150) Italy 12 (6.1–42.6) 6 (5–35.5) 0.4 (0.18–1.6) -- -- --
Heinonen, et al. (2021) 45,a 9 75 (50–100) Sweden 14.38 (3.64–24.17) 4.28 (1.22–6.12) 0.33 (0.14–
1.17)
33.60 (7.01–31.36) 9.93 (4.96–17.23) 0.29 (0.24–1.42)
a

Median, range

b

Median, Interquartile Range