Commercial Insight: Cardiovascular and metabolic market overview - Innovative development pipeline provides limited growth as primary care markets become generic

Introduction

Datamonitor expects antidiabetic therapies to emerge as the biggest revenue earner in the cardiovascular and metabolic markets by 2018. A large and diverse development pipeline will provide a number of new blockbuster drugs but the heavy genericization of the hypertension and dyslipidemia primary care markets will lead to the overall market only growing by 0.9% in the seven major markets.

Scope

• A detailed clinical and commercial assessment of all key cardiovascular and metabolic therapy areas.
• An analysis of the portfolios of top 10 leading cardiovascular and metabolic companies.
• Sales based sales forecasts for all key cardiovascular and metabolic active agents in the seven major markets to 2018.

Highlights

The cardiovascular and metabolic market is rapidly maturing with the total market revenues forecast to grow only by 0.9% CAGR between 2008 and 2018. This is despite growth in the use of cardiovascular and metabolic drugs forecast to grow by 2.3% CAGR over the same time period.

Market growth will be driven by strong antidiabetic and antithrombotics pipelines where significant clinical unmet needs remain. The antidiabetic pipeline is forecast to generate close to $11.4 billion in 2018 with the antithrombotic pipeline generating $10 billion in 2018.

Antidiabetic therapies are forecast to be become the highest revenue generators in 2018 as the primary care markets of hypertension and dyslipidemia become almost completely genericized. 60% of the top 10 brands in 2018 are forecast to be antidiabetics.

Reasons to Purchase

• Qualify and quantify the Top 10 cardiovascular therapy brands across the seven major pharmaceutical markets from 2008 to 2018.
• Understand key drivers and predict the future performance of leading products.
• Assess the remaining market opportunities, where established therapies and other developmental compounds fail to address key unmet clinical needs.

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