Lean body weight dosing avoids excessive systemic exposure to proton pump inhibitors for children with obesity.
Valentina ShakhnovichS Abdel-RahmanC A FriesenJ WeigelR E PearceA GaedigkJ S LeederG L KearnsPublished in: Pediatric obesity (2018)
To achieve comparable systemic PPI exposures for children with and without obesity, we recommend using LBW, rather than TBW-based dosing for pantoprazole.