Sometimes the cholesterol thing is just a thing to scare you (into better habits, into taking a very expensive medication), sometimes it's more real. Most docs will not tell you the importance of a high HDL, instead they will come at you with your total cholesterol (which tells you about the same thing as the ratio between your length and shoe size......), or just the LDL. When in fact even LDL isn't just one thing. So, this is why it's so important to have the actual printout of your labs, not just hearing the doc's conclusion about it.