Template:Did you know nominations/Niacin

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The result was: promoted by Yoninah (talk) 19:24, 20 August 2020 (UTC)

Niacin

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... that niacin is not only a vitamin, but also the first cholesterol-lowering drug, pre-dating statins by decades? From end of History section: "In 1955, Altschul and colleagues described large amounts of niacin as having a lipid-lowering property.[109] As such, niacin is the oldest known lipid-lowering drug.[110] Lovastatin, the first 'statin' drug, was first marketed in 1987.[111]"

Reviewed: Template:Did you know nominations/Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Improved to Good Article status by David notMD (talk). Self-nominated at 01:59, 14 August 2020 (UTC).

General: Article is new enough and long enough
New enough: Long enough:

Policy compliance:

Adequate sourcing: - Chemistry section does not contain any citations
Neutral:
Free of copyright violations, plagiarism, and close paraphrasing:
Other problems:

Hook: Hook has been verified by provided inline citation
Cited: Interesting:

QPQ: Done.

Overall: I cleaned it up just a little by adding "not only." Earwig copyvio detector was down, so I will assume good faith and say it is plagiarism free based on the GA review. Also, this is my first qpq review so let me know if you think I messed up. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 06:11, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

Ref added for Chemistry section. It had been there, then misplaced during some section reordering. During the GA review, Earwig had picked up a major copyright issue, but turns out that website had copied its content from Wikipedia without attribution. The website manager confirmed the situation. David notMD (talk) 12:10, 18 August 2020 (UTC)

The article is now adequately sourced. Very interesting hook, especially for those interested in science. Bait30 ^{Talk 2 me pls?} 16:49, 18 August 2020 (UTC)