This may help:

http://www.medicinenet.com/your_chol...pth/page12.htm

Seems statins are not indicated for lipo B problems.

You'll be interested to know that quality curcumin (that is well absorbed) went head to head with Lipitor in testing, and was found as good for reducing inflammation as Lipitor.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?t...20atvorastatin

This was a specific product with better absorption used in the study. Not all curcumin products are well absorbed.

And as usual this is a foreign paper. Not many US papers on this subject.

Edit to add: here is a story on Roche and Merck's HDL drugs:
http://www.foxbusiness.com/industrie...-for-hdl-drug/

You know one can raise HDLs and lower triglycerides with fish oil. ( or Krill oil).