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Article: Study: treatment reduces risk of heart attack by 70 percent. (Research Notebook).(use of statin drugs and niacin)(Brief Article)
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- FDA Consumer
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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Cardiovascular disease is the No. 1 killer in most industrialized countries. A new study indicates that combining the use of a statin drug and niacin can reduce the risk of heart attack or hospitalization for chest pain by 70 percent among people likely to suffer heart attacks and/or death from coronary heart disease.
The treatment used in the study combined two well-known ways of improving cardiac health: the use of a statin drug called simvastatin to lower levels of the so-called "bad" cholesterol, LDL, and the use of niacin, also called vitamin B-3, to boost levels of the "good" cholesterol, HDL. Niacin is the best agent known to raise blood levels of HDL, ...
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