Medications can boost or lower HDL. HDL levels are sometimes improved by drugs used to lower LDL and triglyceride levels â such as prescription niacin; fibrates such as gemfibrozil (Lopid); and certain statins, particularly simvastatin (Zocor) and rosuvastatin (Crestor).
Similar scenery is found in several more remote sites nearby, and for hikers, the best place is the 9,799 acre Granite Mountain Wilderness, northwest of Prescott; here a pristine area of chaparral, rocky hills and pinyon-juniper pine woodland is crossed by several trails, all centered on 7,626 foot Granite Mountain.
Granite Falls. Established in 1899, Granite Falls is situated in southern Caldwell County located partly on Lake Hickory and less than five miles from US 40 and Hickory. Granite Falls has benefited from a residential spillover from Hickory and nearby Catawba County and has also enjoyed a boom in commercial growth along US 321.