Cardiovascular system medicines – the most consumed in all Baltic States
| | Cardiovascular system medicines – the most consumed in all Baltic States
The most consumed medicines in the Baltic States from 2013 to 2015 were medicines used to treat cardiovascular system diseases similar as during the period from 2010 to 2012, shows the new book “Baltic Statistics on Medicines 2013–2015”. The consumption of these medicines more than threefold exceeded the consumption of the second most used groups of medicines in each of the Baltic States (the group of alimentary tract and metabolism medicines in Latvia and Estonia and the nervous system medicines in Lithuania). According to statistical data the overall consumption of medicines from 2013 until 2015 increased in all three Baltic States. Some groups of medicines were being consumed similarly in the Baltic States, but other had substantial consumption differences, for example, antidepressants, anxiolytics, sleep and sedative medicines and statins. Top 15 of over-the-counter medicines in 2015 were rather similar in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia – the most consumed were medicines with an active substance acetylsalicylic acid. Above mentioned and more statistics can be found in the new statistical book on consumption of medicines “Baltic Statistics on Medicines 2013-2015” that is being prepared and published by the State Agency of Medicines of Latvia, State Agency of Medicines of Estonia and the State Medicines Control Agency of Lithuania. The book includes data on medicines consumption in the Baltic States over the last three years, as well as short descriptions of the pharmaceutical market, regulatory requirements and reimbursement systems of medicinal products in these countries. Read more
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