International Study Launched Testing New Drug Combination To Cut Cardiovascular Disease
It will recruit 20,000 patients with vascular disease from the UK, China and Scandinavia to investigate whether combining niacin with a new drug (MK-0524A) that minimises niacin's side-effects (chiefly facial flushing) can drive down still further the risk of serious heart attacks and strokes among people already taking treatment to lower their bad "LDL" cholesterol levels effectively.