http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/11/niacin-beats-zetia-arbiter-6halts-trial-means-ezetimibe.html Wed, 15 Feb 2012 00:27:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/11/niacin-beats-zetia-arbiter-6halts-trial-means-ezetimibe.html#comment-119243 newsdoc Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:15:51 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=41332#comment-119243 No studies used up to 7 gms but the side effects were limiting. Cardiologists have long been overly influenced by any and every drug and device study that they have lost all accountability. Deaths from CAD and CVA have been decreasing for years without their changes here and in Europe where they were a lot less agressive. In fact we faced an overpopulation of cardiothoracic surgeons for years. No studies used up to 7 gms but the side effects were limiting. Cardiologists have long been overly influenced by any and every drug and device study that they have lost all accountability. Deaths from CAD and CVA have been decreasing for years without their changes here and in Europe where they were a lot less agressive. In fact we faced an overpopulation of cardiothoracic surgeons for years.

]]> http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2009/11/niacin-beats-zetia-arbiter-6halts-trial-means-ezetimibe.html#comment-118890 Danimal Mon, 16 Nov 2009 21:12:44 +0000 http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/?p=41332#comment-118890 2 grams of Niacin every day? Isn't that an awful lot, even with "no flush" Niacin, advice to drink water, and aspirin? I take 500 mg every evening, and the flush is so bad that it wakes me up on occasion. 2 grams of Niacin every day? Isn’t that an awful lot, even with “no flush” Niacin, advice to drink water, and aspirin? I take 500 mg every evening, and the flush is so bad that it wakes me up on occasion.

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