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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.
June 29, 2015. Deemed good cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein, or HDL, has earned a reputation as a guardian of cardiac health, countering the damage caused by other lipids, chief among them low-density lipoprotein, or bad cholesterol. Indeed, a number of studies over the past few decades have demonstrated the benefits of higher HDL levels, highlighting HDL's ability to mop up bad cholesterol from the walls of blood vessels -- the chief culprit in heart attacks and strokes.