India s most purchased drugs in the last decade are for cardiac ailments, diabetes
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At around Rs 21,000 crore annually, cardiac medication forms the biggest therapy of drugs being bought by Indians today. A decade ago, it was a third of its size and the second largest-therapy by sales. At around Rs 16,000 crore, anti-diabetes medication today is the fourth-largest therapy of drugs sold in the country.
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Cardiac medication has emerged as the highest-selling drug therapy in India over the past one decade, while anti-diabetics drugs have catapulted to among the top five therapies sold in India during this period. What makes this surge stark is that anti-diabetes drugs were not even among the top-five selling therapies till 2011, and cardiac drugs till the beginning of the millennium.
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