Renaissance of interest in familial hypercholesterolaemia a fashion trend or consequence of new findings?

Abstract

Familial hypercholesterolaemia represents the genetically determined disease, which is an important risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. Recently, new drugs for treat,ment of FH are available.

Keywords

• Familial hypercholesterolaemia
• apo B
• LDL
• mipomersen
• PCSK-9-inhibitors