Ultra-rapid metabolizers of drugs may have:
1. To have dosages of drugs adjusted downward to prevent drug accumulation
2. Active drug rapidly metabolized into inactive metabolites, leading to potential therapeutic failure
3. Increased elimination of active, nonmetabolized drug
4. Slowed metabolism of a prodrug into an active drug, leading to an accumulation of prodrug
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