How is HDL related to high cholesterol?

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Family Practitioner

HDL, or high-density lipoprotein, is considered a good cholesterol and helps to clear away excess fatty tissues in the blood stream. While LDL supplies the cholesterol to cells, HDL clears it away and delivers it to the liver. HDL helps prevent against heart disease. An HDL blood level of 60 mg/dL or more is very healthy and will help you to lower your total cholesterol and risk for heart disease.

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High Cholesterol

Although blood cholesterol helps digest food and make hormones, too much of it can harden your arteries and cause heart disease. Also known as hypercholesterolemia, high blood cholesterol can accumulate along the walls of your arteries, the main supplier of oxygen from the heart to other parts of your body.

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