ScreenPro FH – Screening Project for Familial Hypercholesterolemia in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe: Basic Epidemiology

• Authors: ČEŠKA Richard; FREIBERGER Tomáš; SUSEKOV Andrey; PARAGH György; REINER Željko; TOKGÖZOGLU Lale; RAŠLOVÁ Katarína; BANACH Maciej; VOHNOUT Branislav; RYNKIEWICZ Gheorghe-Andrei; GOUDEV Assen; DAN Gheorghe-Andrei; GAIŢĂ Dan; POJSKIĆ Belma; PEĆIN Ivan; KAYIKÇIOGLU Meral; MITCHENKO Olena; EZHOV Marat V.; LATKOVSKIS Gustavs; PETRULIONIENE Žaneta; FRAS Zlatko; TASIĆ Nebojsa; MIRRAKHIMOV Erkin M.; MURATALIEV Tolkun; SHEK Alexander B.; TUKA Vladimír; TSELEPIS Alexandros D.; MOUBARAK Elie M.; AL RASADI Khalid
• Year of publication: 2017
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Vnitřní lékařství
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Medicine
• Field: Genetics and molecular biology
• Keywords: diagnosis; epidemiology; familial hypercholesterolemia; screening
• Description: Introduction: Despite great recent progress, familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) is still underestimated, under-diagnosed and thus undertreated worldwide. We have very little information on exact prevalence of patients with FH in the Central, Eastern and Southern Europe (CESE) region. The aim of the study was to describe the epidemiological situation in the CESE region from data available.