HDL cholesterol, or "good" cholesterol, appears to scour the walls of blood vessels, cleaning out excess cholesterol. It then carries that excess cholesterol -- which otherwise might have been used to make the "plaques" that cause coronary artery disease -- back to the liver for processing. So when we measure a person's HDL cholesterol level, we seem to be measuring how vigorousl acidacidsalcoholcholesterolfattyhdlldlniacinnicotinicomega-3statinstrans By edmundin Public bookmarkswith hdlincreaselevelsby 3 users