Metabolic Agents

Multum Therapeutic Class Comparison, United States, 2022

Total Prescriptions in (2022)

Drug Name	Total Prescriptions (2022)	Percent Share
Atorvastatin	109,582,747	23.9%
Metformin	86,747,907	18.9%
Rosuvastatin	37,095,972	8.1%
Simvastatin	26,459,070	5.8%
Insulin Glargine	18,983,906	4.1%
Pravastatin	16,317,126	3.6%
Allopurinol	15,235,133	3.3%
Glipizide	14,521,605	3.2%
Semaglutide	13,523,982	2.9%
Empagliflozin	12,009,952	2.6%
Glimepiride	10,407,351	2.3%
Insulin Lispro	9,647,314	2.1%
Dulaglutide	8,968,874	2%
Insulin Aspart	8,813,259	1.9%
Ezetimibe	8,656,499	1.9%
Sitagliptin	7,947,930	1.7%
Fenofibrate	7,816,416	1.7%
Alendronate	6,127,863	1.3%
Lovastatin	5,745,442	1.3%
Dapagliflozin	5,503,868	1.2%
Pioglitazone	5,389,600	1.2%
Insulin Detemir	4,867,208	1.1%
Insulin Degludec	4,306,212	0.9%
Liraglutide	4,271,706	0.9%
Metformin; Sitagliptin	2,611,967	0.6%
Insulin Human; Insulin Isophane Human	2,234,041	0.5%
Colchicine	2,153,766	0.5%
Icosapent Ethyl	1,551,622	0.3%
Gemfibrozil	1,543,770	0.3%
Niacin	238,507	0.1%
Glucose	17,169	0%

Total Prescriptions by Drug Over Time

Drug Class Prescribing Trends Over Time

Prescription data source: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (MEPS) 2013-2022. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), Rockville, MD. ClinCalc DrugStats Database version 2024.08. 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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