Risk does seem to decline as HDL rises to around the eightieth percentile,” Dr. Attia writes. “But simply raising HDL ...

The good cholesterol, called HDL, plays the role of actually trying to clear cholesterol deposits from the walls of your artery, and it's those deposits on the wall of the artery that can rupture ...

A new study has found that high levels of HDL cholesterol—often called the “good” cholesterol—may be linked to a higher risk ...

High triglyceride levels can be harmful to the heart because they contribute to the buildup of plaque in the arteries, which ...

As a result, other HDL-associated factors have been investigated, including the quality and function of HDL in contradistinction to the level of HDL-cholesterol. Regarding their quality ...

Our specific focus is on modulating gene function to promote cholesterol efflux from peripheral tissues (reverse cholesterol transport) via HDL, thereby alleviating the potentially deleterious ...

2 Department of Movement Sciences, Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands 3 Department of Endocrinology, University Hospital Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands Correspondence to: Dr ...

Nat Clin Pract Endocrinol Metab. 2006;2(9):504-511. The HDL inflammatory index was calculated by comparing the monocyte chemotactic activity generated by a standard control LDL in the absence ...