Improved niacin formulation
AssigneeHauser-Kuhrts, Inc.
InventorEric H. Kuhrts
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Abstract
An antihyperlipidemic pharmaceutical or dietary supplement composition for oral use consisting essentially of a combination of niacin and a gel-forming dietary fiber, and a method of lowering cholesterol levels with such oral pharmaceutical composition, or by the simultaneous oral administration of the active ingredients thereof, which eliminates the usual undesirable flushing and itching side effects of niacin while effectively lowering cholesterol levels, especially LDL cholesterol levels, is disclosed.
Claims40
An oral antihyperlipidemic composition of nicotinic acid, having a reduced flushing effect, comprising an effective antihyperlipidemic amount of nicotinic acid and an effective cutaneous-flushing-reducing amount of a gel-forming dietary fiber.
Method for reducing the cutaneous flushing caused by the administration of an effective antihyperlipidemic amount of nicotinic acid to a patient suffering from hyperlipidemia, comprising the step of simultaneously orally administering to said patient an effective cutaneous-flushing-reducing amount of a physiologically-acceptable gel-forming dietary fiber and an effective antihyperlipidemic amount of nicotinic acid.
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