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Your cholesterol levels are an important measure of heart health. For HDL cholesterol, or good cholesterol, higher levels are better. By Mayo Clinic Staff. High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is known as the good cholesterol because it helps remove other forms of cholesterol from your bloodstream.
Most people know that there are two types of cholesterol â the good and the bad, but forget which is which. The good is the HDL, which stands for high-density lipoprotein; and the bad is the LDL, which stands for low-density lipoprotein. Since cholesterol cannot dissolve in the blood, it has to be transported between cells by carriers called lipoproteins.