Lots of patients are asking if they should stop taking niacin (Niaspan, etc) for dyslipidemia
July 2011
Lots of patients are asking if they should stop taking niacin (Niaspan, etc) for dyslipidemia.
It's all due to the new study showing that adding niacin to a statin does NOT improve cardiovascular outcomes...and might increase strokes.
This is a surprise.
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