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Table 5 Cost of hypoglycaemic agents, cholesterol lowering drugs and antihypertensive drugs

From: Diabetes: cost of illness in Norway

 

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

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30.7

Antihypertensive drugs****

92 172

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14.2

Total

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94.5

  1. * Costs in terms of prices in Pharmacy sales prices including VAT
  2. ** ATC code
  3. *** Data from the National prescription database
  4. **** Data from a patient survey