High Cholesterol Good for Health

PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 07, 2007 – A study was going on Good cholesterol (HDL) and bad cholesterol (LDL). The report and study was released on Wednesday and from that study one point get clear that good cholesterol has healing power. Researchers bring that fact into light that increase in good cholesterol reduces the amount of plague clogging up arteries of patients.

Till today doctors rely on reducing LDL or bad cholesterol, they never think to increase HDL. Increase in HDL will lower heart attack rates and other problems related to cholesterol.

LDL is bad because it allows fats into the blood and thus gets stick to artery walls. On other side HDL relieves artery inflammation and carries fats out of bloodstream.

The importance of HDL was realized after the release of study done on 1,500 patients. The research found that clogged arteries of patients began to clear when statins bring there LDL levels down to 87.5 milligrams per deciliter of blood and their HDL up by 7.5%.

According to Researchers this analysis is the first to show benefits of statins and power of statins in raising HDL or good Cholesterol.

Till now so many drugs are developed to lower LDL like Lipitor, Zocor, Mevacor etc but no drug for increasing HDL. These statin drugs reduce LDL and lower cholesterol level among patients.

Pfizer was the first to initiate but in December there drug named Torcetrapib was going under final stage of experiment and it become a failure due to deaths occurred by that drug. Torcetrapib raised 60% of HDL but deaths occurred among study patients.

This study has enlightened researchers and doctors and will help them in rethink about increasing HDL level.