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Diabetics Get Less Benefit from Good Cholesterol: Study

(Reuters Health) UPDATED 2009-12-23

According to new research, diabetes lowers the heart-protecting benefits of HDL (good) cholesterol. But the good news is that researchers have also found that giving diabetics niacin, which raises good cholesterol, may restore this cholesterol's benefits.

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