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title: "Sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine (de Kock 2017)"
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```{r setup, include = FALSE}
knitr::opts_chunk$set(collapse = TRUE, comment = "#>", fig.width = 7, fig.height = 5)
library(nlmixr2lib)
library(PKNCA)
library(rxode2)
library(dplyr)
library(tidyr)
library(ggplot2)
```

# Model and source

* Citation: `r rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("deKock_2017_sulfadoxinePyrimethamine"))$reference`
* Description: `r rxode2::rxode(readModelDb("deKock_2017_sulfadoxinePyrimethamine"))$description`
* Article: <https://doi.org/10.1002/psp4.12181>

# Population

The de Kock 2017 cohort was 98 pregnant women (98 pregnancy visits, 77
postpartum visits) enrolled across four sub-Saharan African sites: Mali (n =
18), Mozambique (n = 31), Sudan (n = 24), and Zambia (n = 25). The pregnancy
visits were in the second or third trimester (per-site median gestational age
27 to 28 weeks). Postpartum sampling occurred at site-specific intervals from
6.4 weeks (Zambia) to 46 weeks (Mozambique), as summarised in Table 1 of the
paper. Per-site median body weight ranged from 60 to 66 kg and median
hemoglobin from 9.2 to 11.3 g/dL during pregnancy. Each subject received a
single oral fixed-dose tablet containing 1500 mg sulfadoxine and 75 mg
pyrimethamine during pregnancy and a second matched dose after delivery.
Capillary whole-blood samples were spotted onto filter paper, dried, and the
entire spot was extracted and analysed by LC-MS/MS (LLOQ 10 ng/mL for
pyrimethamine and 10 ug/mL for sulfadoxine).

The same information is available programmatically via the model's
`population` metadata (`readModelDb("deKock_2017_sulfadoxinePyrimethamine")$population`).

# Source trace

Per-parameter origin is recorded as an in-file comment alongside every
`ini()` entry in
`inst/modeldb/specificDrugs/deKock_2017_sulfadoxinePyrimethamine.R`. The
table below consolidates these for review.

| Equation / parameter                       | Value                  | Source location                                                  |
|--------------------------------------------|------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------|
| Sulfadoxine ka                             | 0.531 /h               | Table 2 sulfadoxine, ka                                          |
| Sulfadoxine CL/F (during pregnancy, 60 kg) | 0.0303 L/h             | Table 2 sulfadoxine, CL/F during pregnancy                       |
| Sulfadoxine Vc/F (60 kg)                   | 14.1 L                 | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Vc/F                                        |
| Sulfadoxine Q/F (60 kg)                    | 0.0252 L/h             | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Qp1/F                                       |
| Sulfadoxine Vp/F (60 kg)                   | 179 L                  | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Vp1/F                                       |
| Sulfadoxine F                              | 1 (FIXED)              | Table 2 sulfadoxine, F = 1 FIXED                                 |
| Pyrimethamine ka                           | 1.31 /h                | Table 2 pyrimethamine, ka                                        |
| Pyrimethamine CL/F (during pregnancy, 60 kg)| 1.35 L/h              | Table 2 pyrimethamine, CL/F during pregnancy                     |
| Pyrimethamine Vc/F (60 kg)                 | 163 L                  | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Vc/F                                      |
| Pyrimethamine Q/F (60 kg)                  | 1.45 L/h               | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Qp1/F                                     |
| Pyrimethamine Vp/F (60 kg)                 | 29.8 L                 | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Vp1/F                                     |
| Pyrimethamine Q2/F (60 kg)                 | 0.122 L/h              | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Qp2/F                                     |
| Pyrimethamine Vp2/F (60 kg)                | 251 L                  | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Vp2/F                                     |
| Pyrimethamine F                            | 1 (FIXED)              | Table 2 pyrimethamine, F = 1 FIXED                               |
| Sulfadoxine hRBC/PL                        | 0.155                  | Table 2 sulfadoxine, hRBC/PL                                     |
| Pyrimethamine hRBC/PL                      | 0.324                  | Table 2 pyrimethamine, hRBC/PL                                   |
| Sulfadoxine sigmoid: asymptotic dCL        | -0.757                 | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Change in CL when non-pregnant              |
| Sulfadoxine sigmoid: T50                   | 6.35 weeks             | Table 2 sulfadoxine, T50                                         |
| Sulfadoxine sigmoid: gamma                 | 4.90                   | Table 2 sulfadoxine, gamma (post-delivery effect shape)          |
| Pyrimethamine pregnancy step on CL         | +0.212                 | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Change in CL when non-pregnant            |
| Pyrimethamine Mozambique CL effect         | -0.202                 | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Difference in clearance in Mozambique     |
| Sulfa observation scaling, Mozambique      | +0.212                 | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Site effect (scaling on observations), MZ   |
| Sulfa observation scaling, Sudan           | +0.155                 | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Site effect (scaling on observations), SD   |
| Sulfa observation scaling, Zambia          | -0.248                 | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Site effect (scaling on observations), ZM   |
| Pyra observation scaling, Mozambique       | +0.576                 | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Site effect (scaling on observations), MZ |
| Pyra observation scaling, Sudan            | +0.332                 | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Site effect (scaling on observations), SD |
| Pyra observation scaling, Zambia           | -0.054                 | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Site effect (scaling on observations), ZM |
| BSV CL sulfa                               | 31.3% CV               | Table 2 sulfadoxine, BSV in CL                                   |
| BOV ka sulfa                               | 56.4% CV               | Table 2 sulfadoxine, BOV in ka                                   |
| BSV CL pyra                                | 12.3% CV               | Table 2 pyrimethamine, BSV in CL                                 |
| BOV F (correlated across drugs)            | 20.7% / 17.6% CV, r=0.677 | Table 2, BOV in F and Correlation in bioavailability of the two drugs |
| Proportional residual sulfa                | 0.170                  | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Proportional error                          |
| Additive residual sulfa                    | 2.13 ug/mL             | Table 2 sulfadoxine, Additive error                              |
| Proportional residual pyra                 | 0.180                  | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Proportional error                        |
| Additive residual pyra                     | 2.45 ng/mL             | Table 2 pyrimethamine, Additive error                            |
| Whole-blood to plasma formula              | n/a                    | Methods, Eq. 2 (`CWB = CPL * (HCT * hRBC_PL + (1 - HCT))`)       |
| Sulfa 2-cmt ODE                            | n/a                    | Methods, structural model                                        |
| Pyra 3-cmt ODE                             | n/a                    | Methods, structural model                                        |

# Virtual cohort

Original observed data are not publicly available. The virtual population
mirrors the per-site composition described in Table 1 of de Kock 2017: weights
centred on each site's median and hematocrits derived from each site's median
hemoglobin via HCT ~= 0.0375 * HGB + 0.0079 (Lee 2008 formula referenced in
the paper). For each site we simulate matched pregnancy and postpartum visits.

```{r cohort}
set.seed(20260518)

# Per-site demographics from Table 1.
site_table <- tibble::tribble(
  ~site,         ~mz, ~sd, ~zm, ~n_preg, ~n_pp, ~wt_med, ~hgb_preg, ~hgb_pp, ~tpp_med,
  "Mali",        0L,  0L,  0L,  18L,     18L,   60,      9.9,       12.4,    8.3,
  "Mozambique",  1L,  0L,  0L,  31L,     22L,   61,      10.8,      11.6,    46,
  "Sudan",       0L,  1L,  0L,  24L,     9L,    66,      9.2,       10.5,    15,
  "Zambia",      0L,  0L,  1L,  25L,     18L,   60,      11.3,      13.1,    6.4
)

# Pre-defined observation grid (28 days post-dose, sampled hourly for the
# first 12 h then daily) -- matches the analytical-density pattern in the
# paper's sampling schedule.
obs_times_h <- c(seq(0, 12, by = 1), 24, 48, 72, 24 * (4:28))

make_cohort <- function(n, wt_med, hgb, preg, tpp_wk, region_mz, region_sd, region_zm,
                        site_label, id_offset) {
  ids <- id_offset + seq_len(n)
  # Doses: one sulfadoxine and one pyrimethamine event per subject at time 0
  dosing <- tidyr::expand_grid(id = ids, time = 0) |>
    dplyr::mutate(
      sulfa = list(tibble::tibble(amt = 1500, cmt = "depot", evid = 1L)),
      pyra  = list(tibble::tibble(amt = 75,   cmt = "depot_pyra", evid = 1L))
    )
  dose_rows <- dplyr::bind_rows(
    dosing |> tidyr::unnest(sulfa) |> dplyr::select(-pyra),
    dosing |> tidyr::unnest(pyra)  |> dplyr::select(-sulfa)
  )
  # Observation rows: one per output, at each obs time
  obs_rows <- tidyr::expand_grid(id = ids, time = obs_times_h,
                                 cmt = c("Cc", "Cc_pyra")) |>
    dplyr::mutate(amt = 0, evid = 0L)
  ev <- dplyr::bind_rows(dose_rows, obs_rows) |>
    dplyr::arrange(id, time, evid)
  ev$WT  <- wt_med
  # HCT from HGB via the Lee 2008 formula (paper Eq. 1):
  # HCT = 0.0375 * HGB + 0.0079
  ev$HCT <- 0.0375 * hgb + 0.0079
  ev$PREG <- as.integer(preg)
  ev$TPP  <- if (preg) 0 else tpp_wk
  ev$REGION_MOZAMBIQUE <- as.integer(region_mz)
  ev$REGION_SUDAN      <- as.integer(region_sd)
  ev$REGION_ZAMBIA     <- as.integer(region_zm)
  ev$site  <- site_label
  ev$phase <- if (preg) "Pregnancy" else "Postpartum"
  ev
}

id_seed <- 0L
cohort_list <- list()
for (i in seq_len(nrow(site_table))) {
  r <- site_table[i, ]
  cohort_list[[length(cohort_list) + 1L]] <- make_cohort(
    n = r$n_preg, wt_med = r$wt_med, hgb = r$hgb_preg, preg = TRUE,
    tpp_wk = 0, region_mz = r$mz, region_sd = r$sd, region_zm = r$zm,
    site_label = r$site, id_offset = id_seed
  )
  id_seed <- id_seed + r$n_preg
  cohort_list[[length(cohort_list) + 1L]] <- make_cohort(
    n = r$n_pp, wt_med = r$wt_med, hgb = r$hgb_pp, preg = FALSE,
    tpp_wk = r$tpp_med, region_mz = r$mz, region_sd = r$sd, region_zm = r$zm,
    site_label = r$site, id_offset = id_seed
  )
  id_seed <- id_seed + r$n_pp
}
events <- dplyr::bind_rows(cohort_list)

stopifnot(!anyDuplicated(unique(events[, c("id", "time", "evid", "cmt")])))
```

# Simulation

The model includes a 2x2 correlated BOV block on F across drugs plus
log-normal BSV / BOV terms on CL and ka; the package distribution therefore
returns realistic between-subject variability for VPC purposes. For
typical-value replication of Figure 1 we zero out the random effects.

```{r simulate-typical}
mod <- readModelDb("deKock_2017_sulfadoxinePyrimethamine")
mod_typical <- rxode2::zeroRe(mod)
sim_typical <- rxode2::rxSolve(
  mod_typical, events = events,
  keep = c("site", "phase")
) |>
  as.data.frame()
```

# Replicate published figures

## Figure 1 -- typical-value concentration-time curves by site and phase

The two panels below mirror the structure of Figure 1 of the paper, plotting
typical-value whole-blood concentrations for sulfadoxine and pyrimethamine at
each site, stratified by pregnancy vs postpartum visit.

```{r figure-1-sulfa}
sim_obs <- sim_typical |>
  dplyr::filter(time > 0)

sim_obs |>
  dplyr::group_by(time, site, phase) |>
  dplyr::summarise(Cc_typical = unique(Cc)[1L], .groups = "drop") |>
  ggplot(aes(time / 24, Cc_typical, colour = phase)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_wrap(~site) +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "Sulfadoxine whole blood (mg/L)",
       title = "Figure 1 (sulfadoxine) -- typical-value VPC",
       caption = "Replicates Figure 1 sulfadoxine panels of de Kock 2017.")
```

```{r figure-1-pyra}
sim_obs |>
  dplyr::group_by(time, site, phase) |>
  dplyr::summarise(Cc_pyra_typical = unique(Cc_pyra)[1L], .groups = "drop") |>
  ggplot(aes(time / 24, Cc_pyra_typical, colour = phase)) +
  geom_line() +
  facet_wrap(~site) +
  scale_y_log10() +
  labs(x = "Time (days)", y = "Pyrimethamine whole blood (ng/mL)",
       title = "Figure 1 (pyrimethamine) -- typical-value VPC",
       caption = "Replicates Figure 1 pyrimethamine panels of de Kock 2017.")
```

## Figure 3 -- sulfadoxine pregnancy effect vs. time after delivery

Figure 3 of the paper plots the sigmoidal recovery of sulfadoxine CL from its
pregnancy value over the weeks after delivery. We reproduce the typical-value
curve directly from the model parameters.

```{r figure-3}
tpp_grid <- seq(0, 26, by = 0.1)
gamma_t  <- 4.90
t50_t    <- 6.35
delta_cl <- -0.757
cl_ratio <- 1 + delta_cl * tpp_grid^gamma_t / (tpp_grid^gamma_t + t50_t^gamma_t)

tibble::tibble(TPP = tpp_grid, CL_ratio = cl_ratio) |>
  ggplot(aes(TPP, CL_ratio)) +
  geom_line() +
  geom_hline(yintercept = 1 + delta_cl, linetype = "dashed") +
  geom_vline(xintercept = t50_t, linetype = "dotted") +
  labs(x = "Time after delivery (weeks)",
       y = "Sulfadoxine CL / CL(pregnancy)",
       title = "Figure 3 -- sulfadoxine postpartum recovery",
       caption = "Replicates the sulfadoxine panel of Figure 3 of de Kock 2017.")
```

# PKNCA validation

We compute non-compartmental Cmax, Tmax, and AUCinf for each drug, stratified
by site and phase, and compare to the per-site post-hoc summaries in Table 3
of the paper.

```{r pknca-sulfa}
sim_nca_sulfa <- sim_typical |>
  dplyr::transmute(id = id, time = time, Cc = Cc,
                   site = site, phase = phase) |>
  dplyr::distinct(id, time, site, phase, .keep_all = TRUE)
conc_sulfa <- PKNCA::PKNCAconc(sim_nca_sulfa,
                               Cc ~ time | site + phase + id)

dose_df <- events |>
  dplyr::filter(evid == 1, cmt == "depot") |>
  dplyr::distinct(id, time, amt, site, phase)
dose_sulfa <- PKNCA::PKNCAdose(dose_df, amt ~ time | site + phase + id)

intervals <- data.frame(start = 0, end = 28 * 24,
                        cmax = TRUE, tmax = TRUE, aucinf.obs = TRUE)
nca_sulfa <- PKNCA::pk.nca(PKNCA::PKNCAdata(conc_sulfa, dose_sulfa,
                                            intervals = intervals))

nca_sulfa_summary <- as.data.frame(nca_sulfa$result) |>
  dplyr::filter(PPTESTCD %in% c("cmax", "tmax", "aucinf.obs")) |>
  dplyr::group_by(site, phase, PPTESTCD) |>
  dplyr::summarise(value = stats::median(PPORRES, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  tidyr::pivot_wider(names_from = PPTESTCD, values_from = value) |>
  dplyr::mutate(cmax = round(cmax, 1),
                tmax = round(tmax, 2),
                aucinf = round(aucinf.obs, 0)) |>
  dplyr::select(site, phase, cmax, tmax, aucinf)
knitr::kable(nca_sulfa_summary, caption = "Simulated sulfadoxine NCA (whole blood) by site and phase.")
```

```{r pknca-pyra}
sim_nca_pyra <- sim_typical |>
  dplyr::transmute(id = id, time = time, Cc_pyra = Cc_pyra,
                   site = site, phase = phase) |>
  dplyr::distinct(id, time, site, phase, .keep_all = TRUE)
conc_pyra <- PKNCA::PKNCAconc(sim_nca_pyra,
                              Cc_pyra ~ time | site + phase + id)

dose_pyra_df <- events |>
  dplyr::filter(evid == 1, cmt == "depot_pyra") |>
  dplyr::distinct(id, time, amt, site, phase)
dose_pyra <- PKNCA::PKNCAdose(dose_pyra_df, amt ~ time | site + phase + id)

nca_pyra <- PKNCA::pk.nca(PKNCA::PKNCAdata(conc_pyra, dose_pyra,
                                           intervals = intervals))

nca_pyra_summary <- as.data.frame(nca_pyra$result) |>
  dplyr::filter(PPTESTCD %in% c("cmax", "tmax", "aucinf.obs")) |>
  dplyr::group_by(site, phase, PPTESTCD) |>
  dplyr::summarise(value = stats::median(PPORRES, na.rm = TRUE), .groups = "drop") |>
  tidyr::pivot_wider(names_from = PPTESTCD, values_from = value) |>
  dplyr::mutate(cmax = round(cmax, 1),
                tmax = round(tmax, 2),
                aucinf = round(aucinf.obs, 0)) |>
  dplyr::select(site, phase, cmax, tmax, aucinf)
knitr::kable(nca_pyra_summary, caption = "Simulated pyrimethamine NCA (whole blood) by site and phase.")
```

## Comparison against published NCA (Table 3)

Table 3 of de Kock 2017 reports per-site post-hoc Cmax, Tmax, and AUCinf for
both drugs. The model is fitted to whole-blood data with site-level
multiplicative scaling on the observed concentrations and (for pyrimethamine)
on apparent CL, so the post-hoc Cmax and AUC absorb both the structural and
site contributions. Our typical-value simulations above carry only the
median demographics per site, so absolute Cmax / AUC will be close to but not
identical to the per-subject post-hoc medians in Table 3. The qualitative
ordering across sites and the pregnancy-to-postpartum direction of change for
both drugs (sulfadoxine AUC rises after delivery; pyrimethamine AUC falls
slightly) should be preserved.

| Site       | Drug          | Phase       | Paper Cmax (Table 3) | Sim Cmax | Paper AUCinf (Table 3) | Sim AUCinf |
|------------|---------------|-------------|----------------------|----------|------------------------|------------|
| Mali       | Sulfadoxine   | Pregnancy   | 78.8 mg/L            | see table above | 29659 mg*h/L     | see table above |
| Mali       | Sulfadoxine   | Postpartum  | 69.4 mg/L            |          | 64128 mg*h/L           |            |
| Mozambique | Sulfadoxine   | Pregnancy   | 87.5 mg/L            |          | 43048 mg*h/L           |            |
| Zambia     | Sulfadoxine   | Pregnancy   | 59.7 mg/L            |          | 29037 mg*h/L           |            |
| Mali       | Pyrimethamine | Pregnancy   | 361 ng/mL            |          | 41.2 mg*h/L            |            |
| Mali       | Pyrimethamine | Postpartum  | 308 ng/mL            |          | 31.6 mg*h/L            |            |
| Mozambique | Pyrimethamine | Pregnancy   | 589 ng/mL            |          | 83.2 mg*h/L            |            |
| Zambia     | Pyrimethamine | Pregnancy   | 236 ng/mL            |          | 28.5 mg*h/L            |            |

The "Sim Cmax" and "Sim AUCinf" columns are populated from the kable outputs
in the per-drug NCA chunks above (read the table immediately preceding this
section). Quantitative agreement to within ~20% is expected; larger
deviations would warrant investigation of the model file rather than tuning
the parameter values.

# Assumptions and deviations

- **Single-occasion simulation.** The paper reports between-occasion
  variability (BOV) on bioavailability F for both drugs, on ka for
  sulfadoxine, and on CL for pyrimethamine. In nlmixr2lib's forward-
  simulation use case, each BOV term is carried as a subject-level eta (as
  in `Birgersson_2019_artesunate.R`), so a single simulated occasion
  reproduces the marginal magnitude but the per-subject pregnancy-vs-
  postpartum draw is not occasion-correlated.
- **BOV on pyrimethamine CL (16.9% CV) is omitted.** The model carries only
  the BSV on pyrimethamine CL (12.3% CV). To reproduce the paper's marginal
  variability in pyrimethamine CL, use the combined CV sqrt(0.123^2 +
  0.169^2) ~ 0.21 (21.0% CV).
- **Cross-drug RUV correlation (r = 0.613) is omitted.** The paper reports
  a positive correlation between the residual errors of the two drugs
  because they were measured in the same blood sample. nlmixr2lib's
  observation-error block does not support a cross-output residual
  correlation in this form; the marginal residual variances are preserved.
- **Hematocrit derivation.** The paper's Methods section converts baseline
  hemoglobin to hematocrit via Lee 2008 (Equation 1), `HCT = 0.0375 * HGB +
  0.0079`. The model expects `HCT` directly; the conversion is documented
  in `covariateData[[HCT]]$notes` and applied in the virtual-cohort code
  chunk above.
- **Mali is the reference site.** REGION_MOZAMBIQUE, REGION_SUDAN, and
  REGION_ZAMBIA are encoded as binary indicators; subjects with all three
  set to 0 are in the Mali reference cohort. The model file documents this
  in each `covariateData` entry.
- **Site-specific scaling acts on observed concentrations**, not on plasma
  predictions. The paper attributes residual site variability either to
  apparent bioavailability differences or to systematic dried-blood-spot
  sample-handling differences (Discussion). Either interpretation maps to
  the same multiplicative scaling on `Cc` and `Cc_pyra`.
- **`F` is fixed at 1** (Table 2) and the random BOV on F is encoded as a
  log-normal eta with a 2x2 correlated block (`etalfdepot +
  etalfdepot_pyra`) per the paper's cross-drug correlation of 0.677.
