Monday, November 16, 2009

Zetia Efficiency Trumped By Niacin


Cheap Vitamin B-Niacin,

Proponents of alternative and complementary health have been saying it for some time. There are more natural Alternatives to expensive prescriptions drugs Thurs curing the ills of growing older.

Now scientists have found one easy alternative seems to fit that bill.

Millions of people take Zetia, made by Merck. But in a newly published study in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), researchers found that a cheap B vitamin, niacin, beat the pricy cholesterol drug in reducing plaque build-up in the arteries.

208 patients with coronary heart disease or a risk equivalent, who were on long-term statin drugs such as Lipitor or Crestor, were involved in the study.

Zetia, known generically as Ezetimibe, also reduces levels of LDL or bad cholesterol and is often Prescribed when the others do not work. It was thought to be highly effective at reducing LDL.

But the 14-month study had to be curtailed early after just one year when the patients taking the inexpensive niacin Showed a significant reduction in the thickness of the plaque forming in the artery of the neck, Which supplies blood to the brain, when compared to The Zetia group.



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