Nicotinex

Niacin is a prescription medicine used with diet and exercise to increase the good cholesterol (HDL) and lower the bad cholesterol (LDL) and fats (triglycerides) in your blood. Niacin can be used by itself or with other cholesterol-lowering medicines. Niacin is also used to lower the risk of heart attack in people who have had a heart attack and have high cholesterol.

This medication may be prescribed for other uses. Ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.

Do not take niacin if you have:

• liver problems
• a stomach ulcer
• bleeding problems
• an allergy to niacin or any of the ingredients in niacin.

Avoid ingestion of alcohol, hot beverages and spicy foods around the time of taking niacin to minimize flushing.

Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if niacin will harm your unborn baby.

In the U.S.

• Niacinol
• Niacor
• Niaspan
• Nicotinex
• Slo-Niacin

Available Dosage Forms:

• Tablet
• Tablet, Extended Release
• Capsule
• Capsule, Extended Release
• Elixir

Therapeutic Class: Antihyperlipidemic

Pharmacologic Class: Vitamin B (class)

Chemical Class: Nicotinic Acid (class)

Niacin is used alone or with other medicines to treat high cholesterol and triglyceride (fat-like substances) levels in the blood. This may help prevent the development of pancreatitis (inflammation of the pancreas) and other problems caused by high levels of cholesterol and triglycerides in the blood. Niacin is also used to help lower risk of heart attack in patients with a history of heart attack and hyperlipidemia.

This medicine is available only with your doctor's prescription.