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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Med. 2014 Aug 19;131:322–330. doi: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2014.08.023

Table 2.

Most Common Diseases Represented in the Database

ICD-9 Therapeutic Area Drugs (n) % of “Pipeline”
2 Cancer* 649 26.2
3 Diabetes 87 3.5
6 Pain 62 2.5
1 HIV/AIDS 59 2.4
1 Hepatitis C 59 2.4
8 Influenza 55 2.2
13 Arthritis 48 1.9
6 Alzheimer’s 31 1.3
12 Psoriasis 29 1.2
8 Asthma 28 1.1
6 MS 27 1.1
3 Diabetes-related 27 1.1
6 Parkinson’s 26 1.0
8 Allergies 21 0.8
7 Hypertension 19 0.8
*

See Table 4 for distribution of clinical trials by cancer type.