• Causes

• Symptoms and Diagnosis

• Why Lower Your LDL?

• Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes

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Two kinds of lipoproteins carry cholesterol through your bloodstream. It's important to have healthy levels of both:

• low-density lipoproteins (LDL)
• high-density lipoproteins (HDL).