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Industry: Email Alert RSS FeedExpanding cholesterol drug market leads to increased health plan costs; get ready for super-statins
Drug Cost Management Report, Nov, 2002
RELATED ARTICLE: Statin statistics.
* 70 million prescriptions were written for statins in 2000.
* 16 million physician office visits were for hyperlipidemia in 2000. Hyperlipidemia is the sixth highest-volume diagnosis for physician office visits.
* Pharmaceutical manufacturers spent $134 million on direct-to-consumer (DTC) advertising for statins in 2000.
* The statin market is estimated to be worth $16 billion in 2003.
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