Study was funded by Sanofi S.A. A French multinational pharmaceutical company and was originally funded by Bristol-Myers Squibb and Sankyo, also producers of statins. Not that I want to delve into it, but believe this is relative risk, though still has an absolute risk of 2%....as long as you can tolerate the side effects for 20 years. And you have to be a man with "very high" LDL.