Niacin use was associated with a 25% reduction in nonfatal heart attack or cardiac death according to a review of 11 trials including 9,956 subjects done by researchers at Tufts Medical Center in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
“The consensus perspective derived from available clinical data supports that niacin reduces [cardiovascular disease] events,” the paper concluded.
Unfortunately, only one study gave niacin alone. The other 10 of the 11 studies gave niacin plus a statin or other cholesterol-lowering drug.
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