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HDL means High Density Lipoprotein. It means that you have more protein in your rather than cholesterol in a molecule. It's also known as "good" cholesterol. This number should be higher than you LDL, low density lipoprotein, levels. LDL has more cholesterol in a molecule than protein.

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