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News about the so-called ìgoodî cholesterol -- HDL -- just keeps getting better. Elevated high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol -- which has been shown to increase a personís resistance against heart attacks -- may also protect against ìischemicî stroke, Israeli scientists report today in the American Heart Association journal Stroke. Ischemic stroke, the most common form of stroke, occurs when blood flow to part of the brain is blocked. The other type, ìhemorrhagicî stroke, is caused by bleeding from a ruptured blood vessel. Study co-author Uri Goldbourt, Ph.D., of the Neufeld Cardiac Research Institute at Sheba Medical Center in Tel-Hashomer, Israel, says, ìOur study indicates that high levels of HDL may be associated with protection against more than one vascular disease entity.î