Table 1 Characteristics of medical products included in the analysis: number of generics and all generic alternatives in all strengths
From: The long-term effect of generic price competition on the Hungarian statin market
2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Atorvastatin | generic name | 13 | 13 | 20 | 20 | 18 | 17 | 17 | 17 | 16 | 16 |
strength | 35 | 41 | 62 | 60 | 54 | 49 | 48 | 51 | 48 | 44 | |
Fluvastatin | generic name | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
strength | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |
Pravastatin | generic name | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
strength | 6 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
Rosuvastatin | generic name | 1 | 4 | 6 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 9 | 9 | 8 | 8 |
strength | 3 | 11 | 18 | 24 | 24 | 25 | 30 | 30 | 29 | 29 | |
Simvastatin | generic name | 12 | 12 | 13 | 12 | 10 | 11 | 10 | 9 | 9 | 7 |
strength | 37 | 36 | 39 | 35 | 31 | 30 | 27 | 26 | 26 | 21 |