Tredaptive Safety Hazards Cast Shadow Over AbbVie’s Niaspan

HPS2-THRIVE investigators say serious adverse bleeding and infection events are most likely due to the niacin component of Merck’s Tredaptive and advise caution using niacin in light of the risks. Abbvie’s Niaspan is the most likely branded casualty of the news, but the drug will be off-patent soon.

SAN FRANCISCO – Investigators with the HPS2-THRIVE study of Merck & Co. Inc.’s combination drug Tredaptive are implicating niacin as the culprit of severe adverse events in the trial, most of which required hospitalization.

Merck had announced in December 2012 that Tredaptive did not meet the primary endpoint in the trial and that it was discontinuing development and ex-U.S. marketing of the combination of extended-release niacin and the anti-flushing agent laropiprant

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