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Figure 1. An illustration to show the distribution about the numbers of ATC-classes a same drug may belong to.
For the 3,883 drugs in , 3,295 belong to one class, 370 to two classes, 110 to three classes, 37 to four classes, 27 to five classes, 44 to six classes, and none to seven or more classes.