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Assessment of clozapine taste in healthy volunteers: evidence for non-aversive sensory profile
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<jats:title>Background:</jats:title>
<jats:p>Acceptability is crucial for treatment efficacy, and the World Health Organization emphasizes its impact on patient compliance. Taste plays a significant role in acceptability, with bitter taste often leading to treatment discontinuation. Clozapine, an effective drug for treatment-resistant schizophrenia, faces acceptability challenges that have been connected to its poor taste.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Objectives:</jats:title>
<jats:p>The aim of this study was to conduct, for the first time, a human taste assessment of clozapine to directly measure its level of aversiveness.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Design:</jats:title>
<jats:p>Human volunteer study.</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Methods:</jats:title>
<jats:p>Employing a “swirl and spit” method, 23 young healthy adults rated the taste of four clozapine solutions (0.0011–0.018 mg/mL) on a visual analog scale (VAS) ranging from 0 (not aversive) to 100 mm (extremely aversive).</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Results:</jats:title>
<jats:p>Clozapine was not aversive at any concentrations, even at saturation: mean VAS scores ranged from 5.6 to 10.3/100 (median scores ranged between 2 and 4).</jats:p>
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<jats:title>Conclusion:</jats:title>
<jats:p>Reported barriers to compliance linked to taste aversiveness of marketed or extemporaneous dosage forms of clozapine may be linked to factors such as the dosage form itself, other negative formulation or excipients’ organoleptic characteristics, packaging, and user instructions linked to dosing frequency and duration, and of course, patient and disease-related factors, which require further investigations.</jats:p>
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