Vitamin B niacin offers no extra benefit to statin therapy in seniors already diagnosed with CAD
Saturday, November 21, 2009 - 05:42
in Health & Medicine
The routine prescription of extended-release niacin, a B vitamin (1,500 milligrams daily), in combination with traditional cholesterol-lowering therapy offers no extra benefit in correcting arterial narrowing and diminishing plaque buildup in seniors who already have coronary artery disease, a new vascular imaging study from Johns Hopkins experts shows...