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Elimination profile of low‐dose chlortalidone and its detection in hair for doping analysis—Implication for unintentional non‐therapeutic exposure
| Title: | Elimination profile of low‐dose chlortalidone and its detection in hair for doping analysis—Implication for unintentional non‐therapeutic exposure |
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| Authors: | Thieme, D., Weigel, K., Anielski, P., Krumbholz, A., Sporkert, F., Keiler, A.M. |
| Source: | Drug testing and analysis, vol. 16, no. 11, pp. 1378-1383 |
| Publisher Information: | Wiley, 2024. |
| Publication Year: | 2024 |
| Subject Terms: | Doping in Sports, Male, Adult, Humans, Doping in Sports/prevention & control, Substance Abuse Detection/methods, Hair/chemistry, Chlorthalidone/analysis, Chlorthalidone/administration & dosage, Tandem Mass Spectrometry/methods, Chromatography, Liquid/methods, Hydrochlorothiazide/analysis, Hydrochlorothiazide/administration & dosage, Diuretics/analysis, Diuretics/administration & dosage, Diuretics/urine, LC–MS/MS, diuretics, hair, urine, Chlorthalidone, 01 natural sciences, 0104 chemical sciences, Substance Abuse Detection, 03 medical and health sciences, Hydrochlorothiazide, 0302 clinical medicine, Tandem Mass Spectrometry, Diuretics, Hair, Chromatography, Liquid |
| Description: | Chlortalidone (CLT) is a thiazide‐type diuretic with high affinity for the erythrocyte carbonic anhydrase. Therapeutically, it is mostly used to treat edema and hypertension due to liver cirrhosis, heart insufficiency, or renal dysfunction. Although diuretics and masking agents are prohibited by the World Anti‐Doping Agency (WADA) at all times in sports, substances belonging to this category are constantly detected in athlete samples, according to WADA's annual testing figures. Within this group of structurally diverse compounds, a threshold of 20 ng/mL has been introduced for six substances solely due to their presence as contaminants in other permitted drugs because of pharmaceutical production processes. In a recent presumptive doping case with a low urinary CLT concentration, the question of unintentional doping, for example, by contaminated non‐steroidal anti‐inflammatory drug intake, arose. To examine this potential scenario, a co‐elimination of low‐dose CLT and hydrochlorothiazide (HCTA; 20 × 50 μg, 0.2 mg/day each) was conducted on five consecutive days in two volunteers. Urine samples were subjected to liquid chromatography‐tandem mass spectrometry (LC–MS/MS). Moreover, we examined the incorporation of CLT in scalp hair. HCTA is rapidly excreted renally in comparatively high concentrations. In contrast, the elimination of CLT is considerably slower (terminal elimination half‐life extended by a factor of 12) and, consequently, much less concentrated in corresponding urine samples (45 and 53 ng/mL, respectively). Conversely, a higher hair incorporation of chlorthalidone was observed with simultaneous dosing of both. The results suggest that an unintentional intake of sub‐therapeutic CLT doses due to contamination might result in an adverse analytical finding. |
| Document Type: | Article |
| File Description: | application/pdf |
| Language: | English |
| ISSN: | 1942-7611 1942-7603 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/dta.3661 |
| Access URL: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38374541 https://serval.unil.ch/resource/serval:BIB_3FF57DBFD517.P001/REF.pdf https://serval.unil.ch/notice/serval:BIB_3FF57DBFD517 http://nbn-resolving.org/urn/resolver.pl?urn=urn:nbn:ch:serval-BIB_3FF57DBFD5176 |
| Rights: | CC BY NC ND |
| Accession Number: | edsair.doi.dedup.....3f23a935a9142c2c96b678728c668dcc |
| Database: | OpenAIRE |
| ISSN: | 19427611 19427603 |
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| DOI: | 10.1002/dta.3661 |