New concerns about the safety of niacin. Print
Washington Post: The consistency of the results on studies testing multiple types of niacin “leaves little doubt that this drug provides little if any benefits and imposes serious side effects,” said Yale University cardiologist Dr. Harlan Krumholz. “It’s an astonishing reversal of fortune” for niacin, one of the very earliest cholesterol treatments, he said. “This is a billion-dollar drug and it never really had the evidence to warrant that sort of blockbuster status.”

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