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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 17.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Drug Metab. 2020;21(5):390–399. doi: 10.2174/1389200221666200514130441

Table 4.

Summary of predicted AEs at compound recommended dose range and ED50.

AEs Oxycodone Oxymorphone Tramadol
20–160 mg/day ED50(47.0) 10–80 mg/day ED50(83.9) 100–300 mg/day ED50(247)
Constipation 12.6 – 99.1% 33.9 % 6.08 – 14.8 % 15.5 % 8.21 – 18.5% 15.0 %
Nausea 19.0 – 99.3% 44.3 % 10.9 – 41.5 % 43.9 % 12.4 – 23.8 % 20.2 %
Vomiting 6.40 – 97.6 % 19.0 % 3.59 – 23.9 % 26.2 % 4.69 – 13.7 % 10.4 %
Dizziness 11.5 – 65.8 % 26.1 % 6.95 – 21.3 % 22.5 % 8.40 – 16.7 % 14.0 %
Somnolence 8.07 – 96.2 % 20.8 % 4.51 – 15.2 % 16.1 % 5.99 – 14.5 % 11.6 %
Headache 7.57 – 7.44 % 7.55 % 7.87 – 10.1 % 10.3 % 8.47 – 10.5 % 9.94 %
Pruritus 5.56 – 97.9 % 17.5 % 2.87 – 15.3 % 16.7 % 3.28 – 7.00 % 5.73 %
Xerostomia 3.85 – 49.7 % 6.92 % 2.90 – 8.60 % 9.12 % 3.52 – 7.04 % 5.88 %
Fatigue 4.50 – 70.8 % 9.15 % 2.87 – 5.46 % 5.66 % 3.55 – 6.46 % 5.52 %