More 'good' cholesterol is not always good for your health

We've all heard about the importance of raising HDL, or the so-called 'good' cholesterol, and lowering LDL, or 'bad' cholesterol, to improve heart health. While we've come to assume HDL cholesterol is an inherently good thing, a new study shows that for a certain group of patients, this is not always the case. The study is the first to find that a high level of the supposedly good cholesterol places a subgroup of patients at high risk for recurrent coronary events, such as chest pain, heart attack, and death...

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