Contrasting effects of unmodified and time-release forms of niacin on lipoproteins in hyperlipidemic subjects: clues to mechanism of action of niacin.
Contrasting effects of unmodified and time-release forms of niacin on lipoproteins in hyperlipidemic subjects: clues to mechanism of action of niacin.
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烟酸的未修饰形式和缓释形式对高脂血症受试者脂蛋白的影响对比:烟酸作用机制的线索。
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10.1016/0026-0495(85)90092-7
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1985
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Poole,M
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Knopp,RH;Ginsberg,J;Albers,JJ;Hoff,C;Ogilvie,JT;Warnick,GR;Burrows,E;Retzlaff,B;Poole,M
To minimize the cutaneous flushing symptoms associated with niacin use, a time-release capsule form of niacin has been formulated. Thus study compares the effects of time-release niacin with those of unmodified niacin on lipoprotein lipids, including HDL2and HDL3, apoproteins A-I and A-II, clinical chemistries, symptomatic side effects, and adherence to the medication regimen. Seventy-one primarily hypercholesterolemic subjects were randomized to either unmodified niacin or time-release niacin and took medication for a six-month period. The two groups were closely matched on anthropomorphic and lipid variables. Adherence to the therapeutic regimen at a dose of 1.5 g/d in the first month of treatment was similar in the two groups. Thereafter, at a dose of 3.0 g/d, adherence was in excess of 90% among subjects taking unmodified niacin but only 64% among those taking time-release niacin, chiefly because of aggravated gastrointestinal symptoms; cutaneous flushing side effects, however, were slightly less common with time-release niacin. At these levels of adherence, LDL cholesterol (C) was reduced 21% by unmodified niacin and 13% by the time release form. Plasma total triglyceride was reduced more with unmodified niacin (27%) than with time-release niacin (8% maximum), and HDL-C and HDL2-C were increased significantly with unmodified niacin (26% and 36%) and were not significantly changed by time-release niacin. Increased to a similar degree on both regimens were HDL3-C (∼35%) and apoA-I (∼12%). ApoA-II was not affected by either drug regimen. There were no differences in the effects of the two regimens on clinical chemistry tests except for slightly higher SGOT and alkaline phosphatase levels in the time-release group. We conclude that unmodified niacin may be preferable in initiating therapy for hyperlipidemia, particularly in subjects with combined elevations of triglyceride and cholesterol, but that time-release niacin may be of value in subjects with severe flushing symptoms and hypercholesterolemia as the primary disorder. The mechanism whereby niacin lowers triglyceride and raises HDL appears to differ from the mechanism of LDL cholesterol lowering, as do the mechanisms increasing HDL2and HDL3cholesterol. The two forms of niacin can serve as probes in studying lipoprotein interrelationships.