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 vigorously acidacidsalcoholcholesterolfattyhdlldlniacinnicotinicomega-3statinstrans By irishdancer0215in Public bookmarkswith bookmarkshealth__diseases
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