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Niacin in Patients with Low HDL Cholesterol Levels Receiving Intensive Statin Therapy
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BACKGROUND: In patients with established cardiovascular disease, residual cardiovascular risk persists despite the achievement of target low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol levels with statin therapy. It is unclear whether extended-release niacin added to simvastatin to raise low levels of high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol is superior to simvastatin alone in reducing such residual risk. METHODS: We randomly assigned eligible patients to receive extended-release niacin, 1500 to 2000 mg per day, or matching placebo. All patients received simvastatin, 40 to 80 mg per day, plus ezetimibe, 10 mg per day, if needed, to maintain an LDL cholesterol level of 40 to 80 mg per deciliter (1.03 to 2.07 mmol per liter). The primary end point was the first event of the composite of death from coronary heart disease, nonfatal myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, hospitalization for an acute coronary syndrome, or symptom-driven coronary or cerebral revascularization. RESULTS: A total of 3414 patients were randomly assigned to receive niacin (1718) or placebo (1696). The trial was stopped after a mean follow-up period of 3 years owing to a lack of efficacy. At 2 years, niacin therapy had significantly increased the median HDL cholesterol level from 35 mg per deciliter (0.91 mmol per liter) to 42 mg per deciliter (1.08 mmol per liter), lowered the triglyceride level from 164 mg per deciliter (1.85 mmol per liter) to 122 mg per deciliter (1.38 mmol per liter), and lowered the LDL cholesterol level from 74 mg per deciliter (1.91 mmol per liter) to 62 mg per deciliter (1.60 mmol per liter). The primary end point occurred in 282 patients in the niacin group (16.4%) and in 274 patients in the placebo group (16.2%) (hazard ratio, 1.02; 95% confidence interval, 0.87 to 1.21; P=0.79 by the log-rank test). CONCLUSIONS: Among patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease and LDL cholesterol levels of less than 70 mg per deciliter (1.81 mmol per liter), there was no incremental clinical benefit from the addition of niacin to statin therapy during a 36-month follow-up period, despite significant improvements in HDL cholesterol and triglyceride levels. (Funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute and Abbott Laboratories; AIM-HIGH ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00120289.).
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“Nonetheless, these studies also did not prospectively enroll patients with elevated TG levels despite statin therapy,6, 12, 13, 14, 15”
From Rationale and design of REDUCE‐IT : Reduction of Cardiovascular Events with Icosapent Ethyl–Intervention Trial (2017) · cites this paper as [15]
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“Post hoc and prespecified subgroup analyses and meta-analyses of 5 major fibrate trialsdHelsinki Heart Study, Veterans Affairs HDL Intervention Trial, Bezafibrate Infarction Project, FIELD, and ACCORD-Lipiddhave shown a CV benefit in persons with moderate dyslipidemia (triglycerides >200 mg/dL and HDL-C <40 mg/dL, either isolated or together) but not in persons without dyslipidemia.”
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“In the EU, treatment with niacin was stopped after the AIM-HIGH and HPS2-THRIVE trials showed no improvement in MACE and an increased occurrence of undesirable side effects [123, 124].”
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“Similarly, a previous trial of niacin 4 and two previous trials of fenofibrate 5,6 showed no significant decrease in cardiovascular risk, although triglyceride levels were lowered by 26%, 29%, and 26%, respectively.”
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“With the exception of the FIELD trial, all these trials involved patients who were receiving statins.”
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“Prior CV outcome studies that administered therapies with TG‐lowering effects (niacin or fenofibrate) on top of statin therapy did not reach their primary endpoints.”
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“Benefits in outcome studies appear limited to subgroups with high TG and low HDL-C, highlighting the complexity of translating TG reduction into ASCVD risk reduction [61, 74–77].”
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“Conversely, traditional TG-lowering agents, such as fibrates and niacin, have demonstrated inconsistent CVD benefits in randomized trials, even when lipid changes were robust.”
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“Two large randomized controlled trials (RCTs) evaluating the efficacy of extended-release niacin vs placebo on background statin therapy in individuals with established ASCVD did not demonstrate a reduction in vascular events”
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“Large clinical trials, including the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome With Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) and Heart Protection Study 2-Treatment of HDL to Reduce the Incidence of Vascular Events (HPS2-THRIVE) trials, failed to demonstrate a benefit of adding niacin to individuals on appropriate statin therapy.”
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“Large clinical trials, including the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome With Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) and Heart Protection Study 2–Treatment of HDL to Reduce the Incidence of Vascular Events (HPS2-THRIVE) trials, failed to demonstrate a benefit of adding niacin to individuals on appropriate statin therapy.”
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“However, the recently concluded AIM-HIGH study did not report any further benefits with regard to cardiovascular events when niacin was added to a statin in patients with median triglyceride level of about 160 mg/dl in the mild hypertriglyceridemia range and average LDL cholesterol levels below 80 mg/dl (177).”
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“whether lowering these levels would also lower the incidence of cardiovascular events remains controversial.”
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“These neutral findings with pemafibrate are consistent with those from the contemporary Outcomes Study to Assess Statin Residual Risk Reduction with Epanova in High Cardiovascular Risk Patients with Hypertriglyceridemia (STRENGTH) trial 2 of high-dose n-3 fatty acids, the previous Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health Outcomes”
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“In fact, there was a possible increased risk of ischemic stroke in the AIM-HIGH trial (160)”
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“In fact, there was a possible increased risk of ischemic stroke in the AIM-HIGH trial (154) and an increased incidence of new-onset diabetes (absolute excess, 1.3 percentage points; P < 0.001) and disturbances in diabetes management among those with diabetes in the HPS2-THRIVE trial in those on combination therapy (155).”
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“Studies, such as the Copenhagen City Heart Study involving 9330 individuals, indicate a progressive rise in myocardial infarction risk over a decade with increasing Lp(a) levels [13].”
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“The observed annualized primary endpoint event rate for placebo patients in REDUCE-IT was 5.74%, which is consistent with historical cardiovascular outcome studies, including those published since the design of REDUCE-IT, with comparable patient populations and expanded or hard major adverse cardiovascular events (MACE) (4,8,9,30-44).”
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“Combinations of statins with fibrates, niacin, or fish oil have thus far generally failed to demonstrate cardiovascular benefits beyond that achieved with statins alone.128–132”
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“Furthermore, there is no evidence from randomized trials that therapeutically increasing plasma HDL-C reduces the risk of CV events [63-67].”
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“In the Effects of Dalcetrapib in Patients with a Recent Acute Coronary Syndrome (dal-OUTCOMES) trial, treatment with the cholesteryl ester transfer protein (CETP) inhibitor dalcetrapib increased HDL-C without any effect on LDL-C or ApoB, but did not reduce the risk of major CV events [65].”
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“The CETP inhibitors dalcetrapib (in > 30 000 patients with recent ACS [65]) and evacetrapib (in > 12 000 high-risk patients [63]) were investigated in 2012 and 2017, respectively. Neither clinical study was able to show any clinical benefit associated with CETP inhibitors [65].”
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“Niacin also lowers LDL-C levels by 15–20%,49 but recent large randomized trials showed a significant excess of adverse effects and no significant CVD benefit when added to background statin treatment; therefore, niacin derivatives are no longer available for prescription in Europe.50,51”
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“After two large studies with nicotinic acid, one with extended-release niacin 251 and one with niacin plus laropiprant, 252 showed no beneficial effect, but rather an increased frequency of serious adverse effects, no medication containing nicotinic acid is currently approved in Europe.”
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“Twolarge randomized clinical trials [the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) and the Heart Protection Study 2-Treatment of HDL to Reduce the Incidence of Vascular Events (HPS2-THRIVE)] using, respectively, extended release (ER) nicotinic acid vs. placebo in addition to simvastatin, and ER nicotinic acid/l”
From 2016 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias (2016) · cites this paper as [251]
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“Two large randomized clinical trials [the Atherothrombosis Intervention in Metabolic Syndrome with Low HDL/High Triglycerides: Impact on Global Health Outcomes (AIM-HIGH) and the Heart Protection Study 2-Treatment of HDL to Reduce the Incidence of Vascular Events (HPS2-THRIVE)] using, respectively, extended release (ER) nicotinic acid vs. placebo in addition to simvastatin, and ER nicotinic acid/l”
From 2016 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias (2016) · cites this paper as [251]
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“After two large studies with nicotinic acid, one with extended-release niacin 251 and one with niacin plus laropiprant, 252 showed no beneficial effect, but rather an increased frequency of serious adverse effects, no medication containing nicotinic acid is currently approved in Europe.”
From 2016 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias (2016) · cites this paper as [251]
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“Modest regression of carotid atherosclerosis with niacin in most (but not all) imaging studies was not supported by clinical benefit in the AIM-HIGH and HPS2-THRIVE trials.251,252”
From 2016 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias (2016) · cites this paper as [251]
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“Niacin did not reduce stroke over longterm follow-up in patients with CVD in the AIM-HIGH and HPS2-THRIVE trials.251,252”
From 2016 ESC/EAS Guidelines for the Management of Dyslipidaemias (2016) · cites this paper as [251]
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“With respect to primary endpoints of these studies, although the effectiveness of fenofibrate was not demonstrated, a meta-analysis in primary prevention using fibrates revealed that deaths from cerebrovascular and cardiovascular diseases, non-fatal myocardial infarction, and non-fatal stroke significantly decreased by 16%651).”
From Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) guidelines for prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases 2017 (2018) · cites this paper as [651]
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“Combination therapy using ethyl icosapentate (EPA) preparation or fibrate with statin is effective in suppressing ASCVD incidence. (Evidence level 2, recommendation level B).”
From Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) guidelines for prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases 2017 (2018) · cites this paper as [696]
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“In a sub-analysis of JELIS study696) which enrolled subjects with hypercholesterolemia, it was shown that EPA administration added-on to statins prevented coronary event incidence for patients in primary prevention whose TG and HDL-C levels were ≥ 151 mg/dL and < 40 mg/dL, respectively.”
From Japan Atherosclerosis Society (JAS) guidelines for prevention of atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases 2017 (2018) · cites this paper as [696]
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“Meta-analyses of studies with niacin (mostly without simultaneous administration of statins) indicate a decrease in cardiovascular events [92–94].”
From HDL cholesterol: reappraisal of its clinical relevance (2017) · cites this paper as [92]
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“outcome trials that have targeted HDL-C pharmacologically and have included patients with low HDL-C at baseline, have not demonstrated reduced CVD risk despite appreciable increases in HDL-C.5-10”
From Is Isolated Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor?: New Insights From the Framingham Offspring Study (2016) · cites this paper as [7]
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“In contrast, recent studies have failed to demonstrate that high HDL-C acquired naturally or pharmacologically, is associated with reduced CVD risk.5-11,18”
From Is Isolated Low High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol a Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factor?: New Insights From the Framingham Offspring Study (2016) · cites this paper as [7]
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- The AIM-HIGH Investigators
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- New England Journal of Medicine
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- 2011-12-15
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- Health Sciences › Medicine › Cardiology and Cardiovascular Medicine › Lipoproteins and Cardiovascular Health
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Biochemistry › Cholesterol and Lipid Metabolism
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Endocrinology, Diabetes and Metabolism › Diabetes, Cardiovascular Risks, and Lipoproteins
- Keywords
- nicotinic acid, simvastatin, HDL cholesterol, low HDL cholesterol, residual cardiovascular risk, atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, extended-release niacin, ezetimibe, LDL cholesterol, triglycerides, major adverse cardiovascular events, cardiovascular risk reduction, statin therapy, coronary artery disease, myocardial infarction, ischemic stroke, acute coronary syndrome, revascularization
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Hypolipidemic Agents, Cardiovascular Diseases, Brain Ischemia, Drug Therapy, Combination, Female, Humans, Cholesterol, HDL, Cholesterol, LDL, Male, Middle Aged, Muscular Diseases, Niacin, Triglycerides, Proportional Hazards Models, Treatment Failure, Hydroxymethylglutaryl-CoA Reductase Inhibitors, Simvastatin, Atherosclerosis, Kaplan-Meier Estimate, Medication Adherence
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