Table 5.
Cost of hypoglycaemic agents, cholesterol lowering drugs and antihypertensive drugs
| Number of users | Million DDD | Costs* (million €) |
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Insulin and analogues (A10A**)*** | 47 073 | 28.9 | 35.1 |
| Oral glucose lowering drugs (A10B**)*** | 85 014 | 36.2 | 14.5 |
| Cholesterol lowering drugs**** | 85 880 | --- | 30.7 |
| Antihypertensive drugs**** | 92 172 | --- | 14.2 |
| Total | --- | --- | 94.5 |
* Costs in terms of prices in Pharmacy sales prices including VAT
** ATC code
*** Data from the National prescription database
**** Data from a patient survey