TABLE 2.
Prescriber groups, compared by descriptive proportions according to prescription volumes, specialty, region, and prescriber-drug overlap
| Group | Phentermine
|
New antiobesity pharmacotherapies
|
SGLT2s
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | B | C | A | B | C | A | B | C | |
| Prescribers in Xponent™ | 19% | 100% | 100% | 12% | 100% | 100% | 11% | 100% | 100% |
| Active physicians in the U.S. | 16% | 74% | 81% | 10% | 76% | 86% | 9% | 70% | 83% |
| Primary specialty | |||||||||
| Family Medicine/General Practice | 48% | 30% | 42% | 32% | 34% | 34% | 32% | 34% | 33% |
| Internal Medicine | 27% | 18% | 19% | 21% | 22% | 27% | 22% | 24% | 25% |
| Endocrinology | 37% | 1% | 2% | 47% | 3% | 13% | 64% | 4% | 22% |
| Obstetrics/Gynecology | 25% | 6% | 7% | 12% | 5% | 4% | |||
| Psychiatry | 10% | 2% | 1% | 4% | 2% | 1% | |||
| Emergency Medicine | 8% | 2% | 1% | 2% | 1% | <1% | 2% | 1% | <1% |
| General Surgery | 11% | 2% | 2% | 4% | 1% | 1% | |||
| Cardiovascular Diseases | 7% | 1% | 1% | 5% | 1% | <1% | |||
| Internal Medicine/Pediatrics | 14% | 1% | <1% | ||||||
| Geriatric Medicine | 13% | 1% | <1% | ||||||
| Pediatrics | 4% | 1% | 1% | ||||||
| Nephrology | 4% | <1% | <1% | ||||||
| Unavailable | N/A | 2% | <1% | N/A | 2% | <1% | N/A | 10% | 3% |
| Physicians by region | |||||||||
| South | 20% | 43% | 46% | 13% | 44% | 46% | 11% | 42% | 41% |
| Midwest | 16% | 22% | 16% | 10% | 21% | 16% | 9% | 22% | 16% |
| West | 14% | 20% | 10% | 8% | 17% | 11% | 6% | 16% | 13% |
| Northeast | 10% | 14% | 7% | 7% | 17% | 12% | 7% | 19% | 12% |
| Pacific | 12% | 1% | <1% | 7% | <1% | <1% | 8% | 1% | <1% |
| Unavailable | N/A | <1% | <1% | N/A | <1% | <1% | N/A | <1% | <1% |
| Prescriber-drug overlap | |||||||||
| Phentermine | 69% | 57% | |||||||
| New antiobesity pharmacotherapies | 41% | 51% | |||||||
| SGLT2s | 33% | 50% | |||||||
Prescriber-drug overlap represents the percentage of prescribers of the column drug category who also prescribed the row drug category.
A: % of group who prescribed drug(s) = drug prescribers from group/active physicians in group. B: % of drug prescribers from group = drug prescribers from group/all prescribers of drug(s). C: % of drug prescriptions in the U.S. from group = drug prescriptions from group/all prescriptions of drug(s). Specialties reported represent the top eight most frequent prescribing specialties per drug category.