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View Post: Pulse - Adding niacin to statins is 'better than ezetimibe'
24 Nov 2009
Adding extended-release niacin to a statin in patients with – or at risk of - coronary heart disease results in significantly fewer major cardiovascular events than adding ezetimibe, a new US study has found. ...
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View Post: Ezetimibe fails to beat niacin at reducing atherosclerosis and LDL ...
20 Nov 2009
ORLANDO (Reuters Health) - In a head-to-head comparison, extended-release niacin outperformed ezetimibe in shrinking carotid intima-media thickness in patients who were already taking statins, raising yet another red flag over ezetimibe ...
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View Post: Turi McNamee - Medical Marginalia – Niacin vs. ezetimibe: right ...
16 Nov 2009 by Turi McNamee  
This comparative-effectiveness trial shows that the use of extended-release niacin causes a significant regression of carotid intima–media thickness when combined with a statin and that niacin is superior to ezetimibe. ...
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View Post: Hooked: Ethics, Medicine, and Pharma: More Bad News on Ezetimibe ...
16 Nov 2009 by Howard Brody  
--in which ironically ezetimibe (Zetia) was stabbed in the back by a competing drug company, Abbott, promoting its own drug, extended-release niacin. A head-to-head trial indicated not only that niacin was better at reducing arterial ...
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View Post: Niacin Bests Ezetimibe as Add-On Therapy, Johns Hopkins University ...
16 Nov 2009
Niacin Bests Ezetimibe as Add-On Therapy, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine Researchers Say 11/16/2009. Bookmark and Share MedPage Today -- ORLANDO -- Boosting HDL cholesterol with extended-release niacin (Niaspan) is a more ...
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View Post: Precious Bodily Fluids: Ezetimibe: The hits just keep on coming
16 Nov 2009 by Joel Topf  
Ezetimibe: The hits just keep on coming. The results of the ARBITER 6-HALTS study were published by the NEJM yesterday and they are not good. Great commentary over at KevinMD. Posted by Joel Topf at 2:14 PM. Labels: cholesterol, ebm ...
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View Post: AHA: Niacin to take center stage as it beats ezetimibe in ARBITER ...
15 Nov 2009 by Larry Husten  
At 14 months, niacin but not ezetimibe caused a highly significant reduction in both mean and maximal carotid intima-media thickness. The investigators also reported a paradoxical finding from a post-hoc analysis in which greater ...
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View Post: HDL Raising With Niacin Superior to Ezetimibe
19 Nov 2009
Adding extended-release niacin (Niaspan, Abbott) to statin care formula in a poignant retrogression of atherosclerosis as totalled by carotid intima-media density (IMT), since a further of ezetimibe (Zetia, Merck/Schering-Plough) to ...
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View Post: Niacin beats Zetia in the ARBITER 6-HALTS trial, and what this ...
16 Nov 2009 by Kevin  
Boosting HDL cholesterol with extended-release niacin (Niaspan) is a more effective way of slowing atherosclerosis in high-risk patients on long-term statin therapy than seeking additional LDL cholesterol reductions by adding ezetimibe ...
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