Table 1. The examples of medicines found on Facebook#.
Medicines from Facebook | Medicines category | Number of advertised medicines | Number of medicines offered „for sale” | Example of the found medicine (brand name/substance/ATC Code) | Price of presented example in Euro (€) |
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409 offers found in the study$ | Cardiovascular including novel oral anticoagulants | n = 125 (30.56%) | 3 | Dopegyt® / 250 mg Methyldopa / C02AB01 | € 6.74 |
Hormones | n = 26 (6.35%) | 4 | Duphaston® / 10 mg Dydrogesterone / G03DB01 | € 3.37 | |
Anticoagulants | n = 17 (4.15%) | 2 | Clexane® / 40 mg enoxaparin sodium / B01AB05 | € 3.37 | |
Antihistamines | n = 13 (3.17%) | 1 | CetAlergin® / 10 mg cetirizine dihydrochloride / R06AE07 | € 1.12 | |
Others | n = 87 (21.27%) | 4 | Mysimba® / 8mg naltrexone hydrochloride+ 90 mg bupropion hydrochloride / A08AA62 | € 78.60 |
#We present only these groups of medicines where the exact retail price was indicated.
$The number concerns all analyzed offers for medicines.