Researchers theorize that medically elevated HDL may not be as effective as natural HDL at whisking away bad cholesterol.

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Not everyone with low HDL is at risk, researchers found.

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It turned out their HDL was superefficient at whisking away cholesterol from arteries.

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However, the JAMA researchers found that patients with these little changes in HDL had less plaque in their arteries at the end of the study.

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But Pfizer's Schear points to new studies presented at the AHA meeting that showed HDL made with torcetrapib did every bit as well at removing cholesterol from cells as the natural stuff.

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