Hormones/Hormone Modifiers

Multum Therapeutic Class Comparison, United States, 2020

Total Prescriptions in (2020)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2020)	Percent Share
Levothyroxine	98,970,641	43.1%
Prednisone	19,044,927	8.3%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Norethindrone	14,716,810	6.4%
Estradiol	11,307,656	4.9%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Norgestimate	10,686,538	4.7%
Finasteride	8,185,106	3.6%
Thyroid	5,625,456	2.4%
Desogestrel; Ethinyl Estradiol	5,444,044	2.4%
Norethindrone	4,501,969	2%
Drospirenone; Ethinyl Estradiol	4,124,208	1.8%
Hydrocortisone	3,998,412	1.7%
Prednisolone	3,894,469	1.7%
Progesterone	3,617,744	1.6%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Levonorgestrel	3,588,502	1.6%
Methylprednisolone	3,535,988	1.5%
Testosterone	3,359,583	1.5%
Anastrozole	3,090,061	1.3%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Etonogestrel	2,540,913	1.1%
Methimazole	2,344,339	1%
Budesonide	2,337,016	1%
Medroxyprogesterone	2,240,858	1%
Liothyronine	2,220,213	1%
Letrozole	1,654,579	0.7%
Dexamethasone	1,353,240	0.6%
Estrogens, Conjugated	1,248,466	0.5%
Raloxifene	1,193,740	0.5%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Norgestrel	930,764	0.4%
Tamoxifen	923,296	0.4%
Levonorgestrel	850,220	0.4%
Estrogens, Conjugated (Usp)	743,406	0.3%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Norelgestromin	676,227	0.3%
Drospirenone; Ethinyl Estradiol; Levomefolate	674,288	0.3%
Ethinyl Estradiol; Ethynodiol	114,114	0%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2013-2020. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2022.08. Read more about the ClinCalc DrugStats database.

All ClinCalc DrugStats figures and graphs on this page are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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