High-density lipoprotein (HDL) is often referred to as "good cholesterol" due to its role in transporting cholesterol away from the arteries and back to the liver, where it can be processed and ...

Additionally, it might be more important to improve HDL metabolism, composition, and, therefore, function as opposed to concentrating on efforts to merely increase the HDL-cholesterol levels.

HDL particles are highly heterogeneous in structure, intravascular metabolism and antiatherogenic activity. In this review, we discuss new findings on the antiatherogenic properties of HDL particles.

The team also discovered specific genetic variants related to HDL metabolism as contributing factors to AMD. AMD is the leading cause of legal blindness among older adults in industrialized ...

In contrast, serum cholesterol, LDL cholesterol, non-HDL cholesterol ... independent of weight loss and independent of glucose metabolism and insulin resistance. Decreased sterol absorption ...