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nicotinic acidFinding

Nicotinic acid has no detected effect on body weight gain over a feeding or growth period

no difference foundInsufficient evidenceFinding

01 · The sentence it was drawn from

“Feed intake, initial and final body weights, total and daily body weight gain, carcass weights and feed conversion ratio did not differ between the control group and the niacin group (Table 2).”
Quoted verbatim from Niacin supplementation increases the number of oxidative type I fibers in skeletal muscle of growing pigs.
This finding among the 6 findings on its endpoint

nicotinic acid

Body weight gain over a feeding or growth period

no difference found

Who
25 male growing crossbred pigs (Danzucht x Pietrain), 11 weeks old, mean body weight 32.8 kg; 12 control and 13 niacin pigs
Dose studied
niacin (supplied by Lonza) 750 mg/kg diet added to a commercial diet; plasma nicotinic acid was measured and rose from below 5 ng/mL to 32 ng/mL; control diet already carried 34 mg niacin/kg from the premix, so the comparator is not niacin-free

Insufficient evidencePMID 24010567 · 2013

02 · The study

Study
animal · not in humans
Duration
3 weeks

Evidence, by strength

  • strong
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  • limited
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  • insufficientthis finding

03 · The paper

BMC veterinary research
What else it reported1 finding · 1 compound · 1 endpoint

04 · To cite this finding

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https://catalystproject.ai/e/01M6ZJ6TAQRW4G3HSB9R9RA0E6