Pleiotropic effects of niacin: Current possibilities for its clinical use
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Pleiotropic effects of niacin: Current possibilities for its clinical use.
Niacin was the first hypolipidemic drug to significantly reduce both major cardiovascular events and mortality in patients with cardiovascular disease. Niacin favorably influences all lipoprotein classes, including lipoprotein[a],and belongs to the most potent hypolipidemic drugs for increasing HDL-C. Moreover, niacin causes favorable changes to the qualitative composition of lipoprotein HDL. I...
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عنوان ژورنال: Acta Pharmaceutica
سال: 2016
ISSN: 1846-9558
DOI: 10.1515/acph-2016-0043