Experience with crystalline niacin as the preferred drug for dyslipidemia in a specialty clinic

Pharmacotherapy

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 1296-1299

  Rindone, Joseph P ^a   Arriola, O Greg ^a  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NICOTINIC ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; DRUG TOLERABILITY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; DYSLIPIDEMIA; FEMALE; FLUSHING; HUMAN; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MAXIMUM PERMISSIBLE DOSE; SKIN MANIFESTATION; SKIN TINGLING; TREATMENT FAILURE;

ANTILIPEMIC AGENTS; CRYSTALLIZATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; HYPERTRIGLYCERIDEMIA; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NIACIN; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0030662291     PISSN: 02770008     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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