Top dispensed anticoagulants in England by items 2021

This statistic displays the leading ten dispensed antiocoagulants and protamine in England in 2021, by number of prescription items dispensed. In that year, warfarin sodium was the second most popular prescribed anticoagulant at approximately 4.8 million items dispensed.

Leading 10 dispensed anticoagulants and protamine in England in 2021, by number of items

Characteristic	Number of items
Apixaban	7,662,625
Warfarin sodium	4,791,523
Rivaroxaban	4,629,890
Edoxaban	1,862,980
Dabigatran etexilate	388,934
Enoxaparin	134,177
Dalteparin sodium	86,914
Tinzaparin sodium	53,107
INR blood testing reagents	28,293
Acenocoumarol	17,735

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Release date

June 2022

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Region

United Kingdom (England)

Survey time period

2021

Supplementary notes

Includes medicines used to prevent blood clots from forming or stabilizing existing ones to prevent embolisms. The medicines are also used for the long-term prevention of strokes.
The statistic shows the number of prescription items dispensed. 'Items' is the number of times a product appears on a prescription form. Prescription forms include both paper prescriptions and electronic messages.

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