Dear Reader: First, let's look at niacin and its role in the body. Niacin is a B vitamin needed to create compounds crucial to cellular function. A shortage of niacin, or vitamin B3, can lead to ...

Niacin is a type of B vitamin that offers benefits for you whole body, from your brain to your skin. You can get it from meat, fish, and nuts, or in supplement form. Niacin, also known as vitamin ...

Niacin flush is a flushing of the skin that can occur after taking higher doses of niacin (vitamin B3) as supplements or prescription medications. A harmless and temporary side effect, it usually ...

Boden argues the issue of niacin in CV event reduction remains unsettled, citing design flaws in the 2011 AIM-HIGH and 2014 HPS2-THRIVE trials. The lack of clinical effectiveness seen in the two ...

Niacin exerts several beneficial lipid-altering effects, including lowering the levels of atherogenic particles that contain apolipoprotein B and raising HDL cholesterol levels. This article ...

"Niacin must be considered to have an unacceptable toxicity profile for the majority of patients, and it should not be used routinely," wrote Lloyd-Jones. Instead, statin therapy should remain the ...

While there did seem to be an association of niacin monotherapy with a reduction of some cardiovascular events among patients not on statins—ACS (RR 0.74; 95% CI 0.58-0.96), stroke (RR 0.74; 95% CI ...

The recently published HPS2–THRIVE study has shown that the addition of extended release niacin to statin therapy in patients with well-controlled levels of LDL cholesterol does not reduce the ...

For many years it has been thought that niacin, but not niacinamide, raises HDL cholesterol and reduces triglyceride levels. Recent studies of niacinamide in patients undergoing dialysis have ...

New details from two studies reveal more side effects from niacin, a drug that hundreds of thousands of Americans take for cholesterol problems and general heart health. Some prominent doctors say ...