Health News from Medical News Today: Combination Niacin Does Not Improve Heart Attack And Stroke Risk

Health News from Medical News Today Latest Health News and Medical News posted throughout the day, every day. Combination Niacin Does Not Improve Heart Attack And Stroke Risk 28 May 2011, 6:00 pm Niacin, also known as vitamin B3, when combined with statin only therapy for patients with heart and vascular disease does not lower heart attack and stroke risk - a finding which made the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Abbott Laboratories end a clinical trial 18 months early. The trial, called AIM-HIGH, was aimed to see whether individuals with heart and vascular disease might have better outcomes if they added niacin to their statin treatment... You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.