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Plasma concentrations were measured by a validated liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) assay. Nonlinear mixed effects modeling was performed using NONMEM 7.4 to characterize the population pharmacokinetics of OXZ and MHD simultaneously. Simulations were performed to compare MHD systemic exposure in children ≥ 2 years of age with and without obesity. RESULTS: One hundred study participants with a median (range) age of 9 years (44 days-20.90 years) contributed 425 plasma concentrations of OXZ (n = 212) and MHD (n = 213). Fifty-two percent of the participants had obesity. A one-compartment joint parent-metabolite model with linear input-output and bi-directional transformation between OXZ and MHD best characterized the pharmacokinetics. Body size was the only covariate affecting pharmacokinetics, and a fat-free mass-based metric termed pharmacokinetic weight (PKWT) best characterized that effect allometrically. Simulation results revealed that the current dosing regimen of OXZ can produce comparable exposure of MHD in children ≥ 2 years of age with and without obesity. 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