Extrapolation of Adult Efficacy Data to Pediatric Systemic Lupus Erythematosus: Evaluating Similarities in Exposure-Response

Journal of Clinical Pharmacology January 2023

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Balevic SJ, Niu J, Chen J, Green D, McMahon A, Hornik CP, Schanberg L, Glaser R, Doddapaneni S, Gonzalez D, Burckart GJ

To streamline drug development, the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA) can consider the extrapolation of adult efficacy data to children when the disease and drug effects are sufficiently similar. This study explored whether the relationship between drug exposure and response for selected drugs in systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) was sufficiently similar to support a consideration of the extrapolation of adult efficacy data to children of ≥5 years of age.