She’s far from alone: According to a study in JAMA Dermatology, the prescribing rates of spironolactone for acne in women rose by nearly 300% from 2017 to 2020.By 2020, dermatologists were ...

Of the spironolactone initiators captured in the study, 11.5% were ages 12-18 when they got their first spironolactone prescription. The initiators typically did not have hypertension (4.0%) or ...

The report, conducted on behalf of NBC News, found that spironolactone made up 47% of all oral medications prescribed to women for acne in 2023, up from 27% in 2017.

A database of U.S. insurance claims showed that among girls and women ages 12-40 years, new prescriptions of spironolactone increased from a standardized monthly mean of 17 per 100,000 covered ...