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Since recent research (past six or so years) has proven that the main ingredient in cholesterol medication, STATINS, not only DO NOT WORK ON WOMEN but were shown to significantly increase your risk of getting diabetes, women are left with no viable control for high cholesterol for the next 20 years or so (seriously) while researchers create, test and retest, then try to pass the FDA. The only thing left for us are old cures such as niacin and garlic coupled with diet and exercise. I'm going to get on my soapbox here to say that, once again, "modern medicine" has shown their total disregard for women by only norming statins on groups of all-male subjects. Norming means all the testing a drug has to go through to get approval by the FDA. The same has been true with so many medications and health issues -- lung cancer and heart attack probability from cigarette smoking were all done on only men; it was over a decade later before they figured out that women had the same risks -- and that happens to this day. Due you know that there is still no cure for, let alone research on, so many female reproductive disorders and women are just prescribed birth control pills to fix most of them because there is nothing else. Endometriosis comes to mind. Here, take some birth control pills. Sorry, I just had to get that off my chest because it makes me so angry. Please be aware that your family doctor may not be aware of this more recent research on women and statins and may disagree with me because they don't know. But you can do the research on your own. Just don't go to pop med websites like WebMD. Only real research journals have this information. I read over 25 medical journal articles (the actual hard research data) along with opinion journal articles on this topic, and even lost respect for the Mayo Clinic website for concluding that women should just take statins (cholesterol medication) anyway because there is nothing else. If it does absolutely nothing (which it truly does) but is proven to increase your risk of getting diabetes why would you do that?!? So we women only have niacin and garlic along with diet and exercise for the next 20+ years. Great, huh. This is one of the top rated niacins and it works for me.