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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 25.
Published in final edited form as: J Clin Pharmacol. 2009 Jul 17;49(12):1483–1487. doi: 10.1177/0091270009343006

Table 1.

Characteristics of cases for hospitalization for neurologic phenytoin toxicity and controls and results of multi-variable logistic regression models

n (%)
Cases
N = 14
Controls
N = 290
Recruitment source
  PACE 5 (35.7) 274 (94.5)
  Geisinger Health System 9 (64.3) 16 ( 5.5)
Sex
  Male 4 (28.6) 79 (27.2)
  Female 10 (71.4) 211 (72.8)
Race
  White 14 (100) 274 (94.5)
  African American 0 ( 0.0) 13 ( 4.5)
  Other 0 ( 0.0) 2 ( 0.7)
  Unknown 0 ( 0.0) 1 ( 0.3)
Median age, in years
(interquartile range)
68.4 (33.9) 76.3 (10.2)
Mean phenytoin concentration
on admission, mg/L
(standard deviation)
31.2 (12.9) -
Crude OR
(95% CI)
Adjusted§ OR
(95% CI)
Genotype
CYP2C9
  *1/*1 8 (57.1) 194 (66.9) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
  *1/*2 4 (28.6) 89 (30.7) 1.09 (0.32–3.71) 0.96 (0.25–3.66)
  *1/*3 1 (7.15) 4 ( 1.4) 6.06 (0.61–60.6) 8.91 (0.79–100)
  *2/*2 1 (7.15) 3 ( 1.0) 8.08 (0.75–86.6) 9.48 (0.79–115)
  *2/*3 0 ( 0.0) 0 ( 0.0) - -
  *3/*3 0 ( 0.0) 0 ( 0.0) - -
CYP2C19
  *1/*1 10 (71.4) 213 (73.5) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
  *1/*2 2 (14.3) 70 (24.1) 0.61 (0.13–2.84) 0.50 (0.09–2.73)
  *1/*3 2 (14.3) 7 ( 2.4) 6.09 (1.12–33.1) 4.21 (0.58–30.8)
  *2/*2 0 ( 0.0) 0 ( 0.0) - -
  *2/*3 0 ( 0.0) 0 ( 0.0) - -
  *3/*3 0 ( 0.0) 0 ( 0.0) - -
ABCB1
  C/C 3 (21.4) 72 (24.8) 1.00 (reference) 1.00 (reference)
  C/T 6 (42.9) 123 (42.4) 1.17 (0.28–4.82) 0.84 (0.18–3.81)
  T/T 5 (35.7) 95 (32.8) 1.26 (0.29–5.46) 1.32 (0.28–6.18)

Pennsylvania Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly prescription drug program (including members of the Needs Enhancement Tier)

Usual therapeutic range = 10 to 20 mg/L

§

Adjusted for age, sex, and number of variant alleles of other metabolic enzymes

OR = odds ratio; CI = confidence interval